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MB&F has never created watches so much as mechanical worlds, and the Horological Machine No. 11 is one of its most ambitious universes. First unveiled in 2023, HM11 blurred the line between timekeeping and architecture \u2014 a sculptural micro-habitat built around light, symmetry, and interaction.<\/p>\n
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For 2025, the Machine enters a bold new era. Designer Maximilian Maertens revisits the original concept through the lens of 1930s Art Deco, unveiling the HM11 Art Deco: a new chapter that transforms a futuristic dwelling into a miniature metropolis.<\/p>\n
The Original HM11: A Machine You Could Almost Live In<\/strong> The 42mm grade 5 titanium body was shaped like a four-room home radiating from a central atrium. Each \u201croom\u201d housed a distinct complication:<\/strong> Rotating the case was not only playful \u2014 each 45\u00b0 turn wound the movement by 72 minutes, with ten full rotations providing enough energy for 96 hours of autonomy.<\/p>\n The watch became something you interacted with, not just wore.<\/p>\n Under its double-domed sapphire crown sat a central flying tourbillon, suspended by four laser-cut steel springs derived from aerospace engineering. With stacked domes, curved walls, and a wide multi-gasket crown \u201cairlock,\u201d the Architect blurred boundaries between mechanical art, engineering, and micro-architecture.<\/p>\n HM11 Art Deco: A New City Rises<\/strong> Key visual transformations include:<\/strong> Where the Architect felt soft and organic, the Art Deco edition rises like a miniature skyline\u2014disciplined, sculptural, and meticulously aligned.<\/p>\n The MB&F HM11 Art Deco is priced at SGD 346,000 with tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MB&F has never created watches so much as mechanical worlds, and the Horological Machine No. 11 is one of its most ambitious universes. First unveiled in 2023, HM11 blurred the line between timekeeping and architecture \u2014 a sculptural micro-habitat built around light, symmetry, and interaction. For 2025, the Machine enters a bold new era. Designer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,103],"tags":[4178,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-41889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-luxury","9":"tag-hm11-art-deco","10":"tag-mbf"},"yoast_head":"\n
\nWhen MB&F launched the HM11 Architect, it wasn\u2019t just a watch \u2014 it was a philosophy made tangible. Inspired by the radical architectural movements of the 1960s and \u201970s, it turned Le Corbusier\u2019s maxim, \u201ca house is a machine to live in,\u201d into a functioning wrist sculpture.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nxtmag.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/low_res_MBandF_HM11_Art_Deco_Blue_Packshot-231x300.jpg\")
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\n\u25cf Time display
\n\u25cf Power reserve indicator
\n\u25cf Mechanical thermometer
\n\u25cf Time-setting module<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nxtmag.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/low_res_MBandF_HM11_Art_Deco_Green_Front-231x300.jpg\")
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\nTwo years on, the HM11 enters a different era of design. Maertens\u2019 new Art Deco edition trades the flowing futurism of the Architect for sharper geometry, symmetry, and rhythm \u2014 paying homage to the cinemas of 1930s Paris and the soaring towers of Manhattan.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nxtmag.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/low_res_MBandF_HM11_Art_Deco_Green_Lifestyle_2-200x300.jpg\")
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\n\u25cf Radiating sunbeam motifs replacing the original conical rods
\n\u25cf Two-tone rings and period-inspired typography
\n\u25cf Hands with a translucent red stained-glass effect, created through enamel
\n\u25cf More vertical, structured bridges reminiscent of carved stonework
\n\u25cf Grooved, stepped roof lines echoing skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building
\n\u25cf A newly aligned tourbillon bridge and baseplate, forming a clean architectural axis
\n\u25cf A stepped crown referencing layered Art Deco poster graphics<\/p>\n