Photo: MB&F
As a watch lover, I look at the new MB&F Horological Machine N°9 ‘Sapphire Vision’ with equal measures of lust and anger. Boutique manufacturer MB&F first launched this version of its Horological Machine line in 2018 and claimed the oddly-shaped and gold-bedecked timekeeper was inspired by 1950s “aerodynamic principles.” The other Horological Machines are all designed in the same vein with sleek, jet-engine lines mixed with something that looks like C-3PO’s prostate.
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This new model adds curved sapphire crystal over the entire watch, thereby exposing the innards. You read it by looking at the little window at the end of the watch and this thing literally only tells the time, albeit with a twist.