Horological Meandering

What's better than a Split Seconds Chronograph? The new MB&F Sequential EVO Chronograph! I had the distinct pleasure of seeing this watch last week in Geneva and all I can say... This is REVOLUTIONARY. An ALL NEW Chronograph Concept! A truly great contrib...  

Congrats to Stephen, Max, and all their friends. A new level of achievement that surely ranks MB&F within the true modern horology Holy Trinity.

I wonder what else Max and Stephen can come up with? This is surely the one for the history books! From a functional perspective, this is amazing!

Any serious racing team, or racing enthusiast, could easily use this. If I was still racing the Formula car...

Functional art at it's finest.

A Porsche is functional art. It's very functional, and it's kind of artistic. But this is just beyond... This is just amazing! So much art!

We are in for a treat today with both of these releases. Hope you can get your hands on one to give us a detailed review Patrick. Regards

And this is how it should be imho... progress. It's also kinda sad that many brands are just living off their past reputation instead of pushing the art, science, and technology forward. Let's hope we finally get an officially-announced new Modern Holy Tr... 

The current "Holy Trinity" of Vacheron Constantin, Patek Philippe, and Audemars Piguet are quite amazing. The "Big Four" (not Accounting Firms) would include the aforementioned three, plus Breguet. Perhaps we need to make a "Contemporary Pious Trinity" fo... 

Really needs a modern eye as many companies are superseding the craftsmanship and creativity of the old trinity today. Interesting sidebar as was on the phone with a timepiece friend today discussing the MB&F, the RR release, etc and he brought up somethi... 

But overall, I found this watch to be very fairly priced. Yes, it's a chronograph priced like a perpetual calendar. But arguably it's more complex and pioneering than a perpetual calendar. It's just that perpetual calendars are perceived to be more comple... 

And they're under $20K US. Soon, QPs won't be that special anymore. JLC makes a very nice thin perpetual calendar cased in steel for a reasonable $23K US.

Impressive the way MB&F have designed such a complex movement….Max never ceases to surprise! Thanks for sharing Patrick. Best, Mahesh.,

And big kudos to Stephen for coming up with the ultra cool concept!

It blow me away when i had the chance to play with one during W&W. Incredible creation from a amazing brand and friends

I missed W&W this year... They didn't want Americans coming. What can I say? So I didn't get to sneak a peak at this one!

This is the most bad-arse'd watch ever made. I am officially calling it.

I don't think it has a flyback. I think the "twinverter" button acts in place of that. But I don't know. Maybe I'll ask the next time I'm in their office in Geneva!

Although that doesn't make it any less amazing! I echo all of your thoughts about this watch, it is a superlative achievement and a real mechanical tour de force. I was lucky enough to have the chance to play with it and photograph it in Geneva last month... 

Thanks for the confirmation!

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Yes... The problem is "the average consumer" which plagues all watch companies. The average consumer wants three things; automatic, a quickset date in an aperture, and a large second hand. They don't care about hacking. They don't care about flybacks, whi... 

I think I was doing quite the opposite

But the companies are only going by how the consumer incentivizes their behavior. Meaning if the consumer doesn't care enough, the company doesn't care that much neither. Did I get it right this time?

This is truly an amazing feat of high end horological technology. Time to write a new chapter in the book of chronographs! Thank's for a very interesting post.

Are you saying there are horses named Tortoise and Hare?

But in the book, the Tortoise always seems to win!

...and maybe it is only me: this "dial" is really not pretty at all. Quite messy, not legible in many ways, nothing I would like to look at and no charm for a wrist imho. Not talking about the technical features. (There also have been chronos in the past ... 

I often say, some perpetual calendars aren't handsome and that they're crowded and messy dials. Some chronographs can come off that way too. But this one is quite handsome in person. Of course, to each their own. But I'm very sensitive to messy dials. And... 

With that said, the design itself does leave me pondering.... As with most MB&F designs, so nothing remotely new there .... Remains to be seen in the metal. Thanks a bunch for the exhaustive report Patrick! Cheers, Filip

As they're bound to have one in the Gallery!

...I wish I was a bigger fan of the bridge on these... At 44 x 18.2mm it seems a bit unwearable to me. Maybe they will some day size it down.

I wore this watch in Geneva last week, and it didn't come off nearly that thick (the crystal is heavily domed, the case side isn't that thick). The 44mm case size definitely felt small, it wore like a 42mm like an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch. So don't wor... 

...but would never be able to wear it with a long-sleeve shirt. The engineering, however, is truly amazing.

A little large, but I think many of their creations are excepted from normal sizing protocol. Thanks for sharing!

It wears like an Omega Moonwatch in size. Definitely feels small for a 44mm.

Most complex looking watches don't look elegant. But this one has an air of ultra-modern elegance to it.

Thanks to the genius of Stephen McDonnell and the creative vision of Maximilian Busser, we no longer have to put the chicken on the BBQ at the same time as the steak. It becomes possible to separately time the cooking of both to perfection, without having... 

So I know what you mean! Too bad he's not a watch guy!

It was a wonderful moment when Max Busser explained how the idea was presented by Stephen and how the watch was born. They way Stephen explained the loss of amplitude in a traditional chronograph when accuracy and stability is “most” needed; and then went... 

This one is truly a special piece! Unprecedented!

I could barely sit down while the team explained to me how the watch worked!

This and the lm perpetual make me wonder what the heck all these other brands are doing with their r&d budgets or if such innovation is even possible in a larger corporate/commercial environment. In my industry few have figured out how to nurture a contin... 

Hmm. I don't know why MB&F has an aversion to second hands. I like to have the second hand too, just to make sure the watch is still running. With the MB&F watches, the movement is often exposed, so one can automatically tell the movement is still... 

IMHO having a seconds hand makes it convenient to not only set the watch accurately, but also measure the accuracy on an on-going basis. Perhaps if one of the chrono seconds hand can be kept running without affecting the timekeeping stability, it may be a... 

The 5960 has a vertical clutch chrono, opposed to the more traditional horizontal clutch. The horizontal clutch has gear teeth going in and out, giving a minor amount of friction that would eventually create extra drag in the system and theoretically shou... 

I love it. Bravo MB&F!

I wouldn't be surprised!