Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 191

MB & F HOROLOGICAL MACHINE NUMBER ONE TOURBILLON TITANIUM MB & F, "Horological Machine Number One", No. 2 / 10, Ref. 10.T41T. Tourbillon with 7-day power reserve. Made in a very limited edition of only 10 pieces, circa 2008. Extremely fine and innovative, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant titanium wristwatch in the form of an eight, with four mainspring barrels providing 7-day power-reserve, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an MB&F titanium double-sprung deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and papers.

Two-body, massive, figure of eight-shaped, brushed and polished, overhanging bezel, inclined deep band, concave lugs with screwed bars, transparent back with 6 special screws, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. Ruthenium/silver, transparent, separate dials for the hours and minutes, the hour dial with radial white Arabic numerals, sapphire crystal bridge, the minutes dial with radial Arabic numerals, inner minutes divisions, sapphire crystal bridge with power-reserve indication, central aperture for the tourbillon. Black skeletonized arrow hands with luminous tips. Special caliber, in the form of an eight, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 81 jewels, four mainspring barrels in parallel, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with three equidistant arm steel cage, polished steel bridge, monometallic balance with 28,800 beats per hour, self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K pink gold rotor.