Looking at this animal, you notice a lot of things. First off the rare color, a beautiful clash of orange and green, the large, round eyes and streamline design of this creature. You would never think to get inspiration to design a watch from it would you? Well that is the difference between you and world famous watch designer Maximilian Busser, owner and chief creative office for MB&F watches.
You have seen my past reviews from Max's watch collection, but this one is something out of a sci-fy movie.
And here we are: The MB&F Horological Machine No3 FROG ! (I know it is one hell of a long name… probably better as HM3 Frog)
As amazing as it could seem, I have always felt that our HM3 was a very elegant piece. So when the prototype came out two years ago, I immediately itched to create a really “whacky” version of it.
Two sketches later, the Frog was born… well in concept at least. The hour and minute gears as well as date system had to be entirely modified in the 304 part engine, the sapphire domes needed to be perfectly machined on both sides so as not deform the numbers and most difficult was to create the lightest aluminium domes possible – in this case we managed to hit 0,58g by machining them down to a thickness of 0,28mm.
The Frog is special, the Frog is rare… we will only craft 32 movements this year: a limited edition of 12 pieces in black titanium (with green gold rotor) and 20 pieces of a non-limited titanium version (with blue gold rotor).
If you wish to get all images and information it can all be downloaded directly from: http://www.mbandf.com/download/press/hm3-frog/
The first pieces of the Frog will be delivered during this month of May.
Stunning.....
When creativity leaps out the box, must be a Frog -
