The watch industry is awash with too much news to cover. Each week, we’ll break down everything worth knowing. This week: MB&F’s avant-garde dive watch, new Royal Oaks, a unique Vacheron Constantin and other updates from SIHH.
Sea-Inspired Avant-Garde
The mad geniuses at MB&F have released their eighth Horological Machine, curiously named the MB7. Looking to the sea for inspiration, the MB7 is ostensibly a dive watch — though with a 50-meter depth rating and near-$100,000 price tag, we don’t recommend you treat it as such. The watch features a rotating bezel that circles the entirety of the case rather than sitting atop it and a titanium or red gold case case (your choice), and it comes in at an absurdly large 53.8mm in diameter and 21.3mm thick. The automatic movement itself is vertically built, starting with the tentacle-shaped rotor at the bottom and culminating in a 60-second flying tourbillon at the top, two things every diver will tell you a good dive watch definitely needs.
The Vacheron Symphonia Grande Sonnerie 1860
As it did with the bonkers Celestia, Vacheron Constantin is flexing its watchmaking muscles with its first-ever grande sonnerie wristwatch, which features an impressive 727 components inside. Further, it combines the functions of a grande sonnerie with a petit sonnerie and a minute repeater in one watch. Only one watch will be made and, rest assured, like many SIHH reveals you probably won’t be able to afford it.
