DonCorson offers a critical yet appreciative review of MB&F's presence at SIHH 2016, focusing on the HM6-SV and the charming Sherman robot clock. His post delves into the design philosophy behind the HM6-SV's sapphire case, contrasting it with the original HM6, and celebrates the playful innovation of Sherman. This article provides a collector's perspective on MB&F's latest creations, highlighting both their technical prowess and aesthetic choices.
A Geneva based brand, it was clear that MB&F wouldn't be able to let an opportunity like the SIHH pass by. And we got some nice things to see.
The watch to see is the HM6-SV. The HM6, introduced last year has a small problem, you don't see the movement at all. So MB&F decided to alleviate that problem by creating another, the HM6-SV in which you see almost nothing but the movement.
The case is a tour-de-force in sapphire manufacturing, to get all those portholes top and bottom and all the rest too meant quite some sapphire sculpturing, but personally I don't really think it was worth the effort. All the subtilness of the organic sculpturing of the orginal HM6 is lost. We see all the mechanics, but do we really want to see everything? Yes we can see all the work that goes into decorating the movement, but at what a loss. And the attempted citation of Airstream styling in the case band doesn't help any. The watch has become big and bulky in the place of svelt and curvy, look at this wrist shot.
OK, I can accept that maybe I am overreacting as the HM6 was my favorate at BaselWorld 2015 see
here, such a beautiful, sensual case, but still.
Sherman, however, does his job very well. He has two reasons for being:
1) To tell us the time
2) To make us smile.
And Sherman, again a collaboration between MB&F and l'Epée, does both of these things very well. But actually, he makes me smile so much that I don't care what time it is.
Well done!
This message has been edited by DonCorson on 2016-01-22 03:41:11 
