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BEST FROM: & Friends January 3, 2014
A Happy New Year to all!We begin the new year with lots of high-end watches from A. Lange & Sohne, F.P. Journe, Kari Voutilainen and Maitres du Temps. We also find out how the Rolex Submariner became the icon that it is today; revisit the case of the Swatch Group versus Tiffany & Co.; learn more about the history of Laco; and finally see how an IWC Ingenieur 5005 is repaired.
MB&F HM3 MoonMachine Watch Hands-On
This is the latest MB&F watch to be produced in cooperation with another watchmaker. Past pieces included this HM2.2 Black Box watch done with French Alain Silberstein. For the HM3 MoonMachine, MB&F selected to work with Finnish Stepan Sarpaneva; his eponymous brand is Sarpaneva. The HM3 MoonMachine is a real hybrid between the design of both MB&F and Sarpaneva.Sarpaneva has become known as the moon phase watch brand. I don’t always know if Sarpaneva wished for this, but the grimacing face on his moon phase indicators has become very synonymous with the brand. It therefore makes sense that in any collaboration he does, the eye-catching face be a large part of the design. Before starting his own brand, Sarpaneva worked with such greats as Christophe Claret, Piaget, and Vianney Halter (among others). He is really almost a lone operation, making his watches by hand in Helsinki.