Introducing MB&F Surprises at Dubai Watch Week with the Horological Machine 11 Architect

The first blueprints were made in 2018 by Eric Giroud, keystone of the MB&F design process, whose architectural background clearly informs the layout of HM11. A central atrium that gives ontofour peripheral rooms.Transparency And light. Interior volumes that interact with exterior perspectives. Curvilinear morphology, primitive in its affinities with the human form, futurist in its unboxed vision.

The materials chosen to represent the two launch editions of HM11 Architect Are Titanium and sapphire crystal. Both are known for being extremely challenging to machine, such that it was only within the last two decades that their use became feasible in watches of complex form.The lower half of the HM11 case is a highly three-dimensional Grade-5 titanium shell with different inner and outer surface profiles. The upper caps of each of the four HM11 rooms machined separately, since they can be affixed only after the movement has been installed. Close to a week is required to complete the HM11 case, comprising all the operations of milling,finishing and quality control.

A central flying tourbillon forms the heart of the house, pushing skyward under a double-domed sapphire roof. Fittingly, for a mechanism that is spatially and functionally at the origin point of the watch, it's quatrefoil-shaped upper bridge recalls the shape of clerestory windows.

  From this spinning core, four symmetrical volumes reach upwards, creating the four parabolic rooms of the house that is HM11 Architect. the entire structure rotates on its foundations. The 90°angle of offset between each room means that you can position HM11 with one of its rooms directly facing you.This versatility in display orientation also has a practical use. After 10 complete rotations, HM11 is at its maximum autonomy of 96 hours.

While all four rooms share a similar interior—glossy white walls with full sapphire crystal window pane—each of them has a different function.The Time room is where you go to retrieve the hours and minutes.Rod-mounted orbs serve as hour markers,using larger and lighter polished aluminum orbs for each quarter and smaller and darker polished titanium orbs for the rest. Red-tipped arrows point to the hours and minutes, providing a rare accent of color to the otherwise Spartan time room.The next room, 90° to the left, is where the power reserve display resides. Following the design schema established by the time room, rod-mounted orbs are paired with a red-tipped arrow to show how much running autonomy is left in the HM11 barrel. Proceeding clockwise, the five orbs increase in diameter until the final polished aluminum orb, 2.4mm in diameter, indicating the full 96 hours of power reserve.

There are six externally facing sapphire crystal components in the case of HM11, the largest of which consists of two separate sapphire crystal domes stacked concentrically to form the transparent atrium roof of HM11. Dome skylights feature prominently in 1970s residential architecture, a result of that period’s fascination with injection-molded acrylics and adventurous design.

Despite its 3-dimensional, architectural conception and the complexity of its movement,the HM11 case surprisingly measures only 42mm in diameter. It sits sleekly and comfortably on the wrist.

automatic winding system or deliberate manual input via the winding crown. These two methods of supplying energy are combined in HM11. Winding the watch can be both incidental and a secondary effect of changing the room orientation and deliberate. The action itself is amplified; instead of turning a crown of small diameter, you turn the watch itself, adding greater weight to the relationship between HM11 and its wearer. With HM11, its 96 hours of power reserve can be completely rewound after just 10 full clockwise rotations of the case. 

This magnificent architecture timepiece powered by an automatic engine developed in-house by MB&F. and could be manuel wounded it, it features three-dimensional horological engine featuring bevel gears, composed of a flying tourbillon, hours and minutes, a power reserve indicator and temperature measurement, it operates at 18,000 VPH (2.5hz) and it’s made of 364 components including 29 jewels.

The watch is paired with a Rubber Strap white for the blue model and khaki green for the red gold model Titanium tang buckle.

The Horological Machine 11 Architect is limited to 25 pieces for each edition and comes with a price of 213,000 CFH which is equivalent to 882,000 AED.

For more information, please visit Mb&F official website.