Only Watch - relógios MB&F cria peça com panda voador

A manufactura relojoeira suíça MB&F criou um HM4, exemplar único, para o leilão humanitário Only Watch, que se realiza a 22 de Setembro, em Monte Carlo, a favor das crianças vítimas de distrofia muscular Duchenne.

O relógio foi concebido em colaboração com o artista chinês Huang Hankang. Este H(orological)M(achine)4 Thunderbolt Only Watch apresenta um panda miniatura em ouro maciço, a "pilotar" uma peça que sempre assumiu a forma de uma nave espacial.

HM4 Only Watch 2011: Technical Specifications

Features
A detachable 18k gold panda and reins on top of Horological Machine No4 with the signature of the artist, Huang Hankang, on the sapphire glass display panel.

Case
Grade 5 titanium and sapphire with a detachable 18k white gold panda holding gold reins
Dimensions (without panda): 54mm wide x 52mm long x 24mm high
Number of components: 65
Articulation of the lugs: 3°

Functions
Hours, minutes, and power reserve indicator
Hours and minutes on the right dial; power reserve indicator on the left dial
Separate crowns for time setting and winding

Engine
Three-dimensional horological engine developed 100 percent by MB&F
Manual winding with two mainspring barrels in parallel
Power reserve: 72 hours
Balance frequency: 21,600bph/3Hz
Number of components: 311
Number of jewels: 50

Sapphire crystals
Five sapphire crystals: 2 for the dials, 2 for the display panels (top and bottom), and 1 for the central case section

Strap and buckle
A black hand-stitched calfskin strap with a titanium/white gold custom-designed deployment buckle attached to articulated lugs

Painting
The HM4 Only Watch is accompanied by the original watercolour that artist Huang Hankang painted to express his message with MB&F's Horological Machine No. 4.

Huang Hankang e Maximilian Büsser, fundador da MB&F (Maximilian Büsser and Friends)

Da marca:

This MB&F piece for Only Watch transports us to a fantasy dream world with a friendly panda piloting a unique space-age HM4 jet. While visiting an art gallery a few years ago, MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser noticed a painting of a panda flying on a rocket that lifted his spirits so much that he bought it. That painting was by Paris-based Chinese artist, Huang Hankang, and for Only Watch, Huang used HM4 as his canvas to convey a childlike liberation of the spirit.

When Huang was asked if he was interested in collaborating with MB&F on the Only Watch project, it only took one glance at HM4 Thunderbolt for him to realise that while this was an artistic medium he had not considered before—or even knew existed—he relished in the challenge and the cause. Huang first imagined and then painted a delightful, carefree panda bear flying free on top of HM4 and MB&F set about transforming Huang’s painting into a horological expression. Huang’s original painting accompanies the HM4 Only Watch.

As Huang relates, “I saw MB&F’s work as art, not watchmaking. It comes from unfettered imagination, just like my paintings.”