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Black Badger Editions

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For the Performance Art collection, James Thompson – aka Black Badger – has reinterpreted not just one but two Machines: HMX, first launched in 2015 for MB&F’s 10th Anniversary, and Starfleet Machine, MB&F’s first table clock, created with L’Epée 1839.

Black Badger's specialty is working with high-efficiency lume – an exclusive material that comes in solid blocks which he mills by hand or machine into the desired shape. The lume is extremely efficient at storing and releasing light, and its solid form means that it shines brighter for longer. The three available colours – Radar Green, Phantom Blue, and Purple Reign – are eye-catching by day, but it's when the sun goes down that they really come out to party.

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Performance art illuminated by smouldering rage

For HMX Black Badger, Thompson redesigned the "rocker cover" of HMX's Engine, visible under the supercar-like sapphire crystal cover, milled from his signature solid blocks of brightly coloured, high-efficiency lume.

While the colours – Radar Green, Phantom Blue, and Purple Reign – are eye-catching by day, it's when the sun goes down that they really come out to party. The long-lasting glow emitted by the high efficiency lume irradiates the HMX Engine compartment in an ethereal bath of light.

HMX displays bi-directional jumping hours and trailing minutes. Light streaming through the transparent Engine cover both illuminates the top of HMX's Engine by day, and by night the brightly glowing lume provides its own colourful backlight to the time display.

For Starfleet Machine Black Badger, Thompson added his exclusive lume under the external ring running around the Starfleet Machine movement, to the inside of the spaceship's landing legs, and the indication domes and hands. The Black Badger touch ensures that Starfleet Machine looks just as good by night as it does by day.

While it may look like a model spaceship, Starfleet Machine Black Badger is actually a high precision clock with a 40-day power reserve that was created by L’Epée 1839 from a design by MB&F.

  • Material: Grade 5 titanium and stainless steel
  • Dimensions: 46.8 x 44.3 x 20.7 mm

  • Three-dimensional horological engine composed of a jumping hour and trailing minutes module developed in-house by MB&F, powered by a Sellita gear train
  • Mechanical movement, automatic winding
  • 223 components / 29 jewels / 42h power reserve

  • Bi-directional jumping hours and trailing minutes, displayed by dual reflective sapphire crystal prisms with integrated magnifying lens. Engine "rocker covers" from milled blocks of high-efficiency lume.

  • Material: palladium-plated brass with luminescent details
  • Dimensions: Diameter: approx. 29cm, Height: approx. 21cm

  • L’Epée in-house designed and manufactured movement
  • Balance frequency: 18,000 bph / 2.5 Hz.
  • 48 jewels / 40 days power reserve

  • Luminescent hours and minutes on a central dome featuring MB&F’s signature numerals.
  • 20-second intervals indicated by double retrograde fly-out cannons emanating from central dome.
  • A dome indicator, framed by a hand-finished arc, provides an intuitive view of remaining energy as it turns 270°. Complemented by a ‘radar dish’ that also revolves 270°.

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