72 luxury timepieces pre-selected for Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG)

The International audience has a chance to discover the latest watch creations and to enrich their watchmaking knowledge through seminars, workshops and talks staged within this framework. Created in 2001 and overseen since 2011 by a foundation recognised as a public interest organisation, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève is intended to highlight and annually reward … Read more

SIHH 2016: New decor, new arrivals, new exhibition, and first Carré des Horlogers at first luxury watch show of the year

“Carré des Horlogers” is the new buzzword at SIHH 2016. The Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) held in Geneva marks the beginning of the watchmaking year. SIHH 2016, Fine Watchmaking’s foremost trade fair, will lift the veil on a new interior decor at its 26th edition, to be held January 18th to 22nd, … Read more

Starfleet Machine L’EPEE 1839 – to boldly go where no clock designer had gone before

L’epée Starfleet Machine – the high-end table clock, but not as we know it!   Switzerland’s only remaining specialised high-end clock manufacture L’Epée 1839 & award-winning luxury Swiss watch manufacturer MB&F continue to explore strange new horological worlds inspired by the image of Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk. One of the latest creation is … Read more

N°6 Space Pirate – MB&F’s craziest machine to date

As Swiss horological lab MB&F says, its N°6 (HM6) ‘Space Pirate’ watch or, to be correct, the Horological Machine N°6, has been designed to operate in the hostile environment of space: the space on your wrist. “Inspired by Japanese sci-fi cartoons and 1970s biodesign, HM6 ‘Space Pirate’ is quite simply our craziest, most complex machine … Read more

L’Epée 1839 celebrates 175th anniversary with Two Hands and Starfleet Machine milestone clocks

On the occasion of its 175th anniversary, high-end clock manufacturer L’Epée 1839 (founded in 1839 in Sainte-Suzanne, France), best known for table watches inspired and created by great designers, will unveil at the next Baselworld two anniversary creation – Starfleet Machine and Two Hands. Animated by a flying tourbillon, the “Two Hands” clock was created … Read more

Musicmachine – a high-end music box that looks and sounds out of this world

Reuge by MB & F – a music box that looks and sounds out of this world With dual propellers and twin silver cylinders mounted on sleek outrigger landing gear, the MusicMachine looks like a spaceship. The little sci-fi wonder is the child of REUGE, the global manufacturer of luxury music boxes, and MB&F, the … Read more