At this year's GPHG in Geneva, Maximilian Büsser won two awards. In fact, in addition to the most prestigious prize, L'Aiguille d'Or, won thanks to the Legacy Machine Sequential EVO, he was also awarded in the Challenger category, thanks to the M.A.D.1 Red signed M.A.D. Editions, a watch designed for friends of the brand, including an exceptional Italian family. The fruitful relationship between Büsser and the Corvo family began in the 1990s, when Max held the position of product manager at Jaeger-LeCoultre and planned with Giorgio and Michele Corvo, the company's distributors in Italy, the future developments of the Manufacture in our country.
In 1998, he then switched to Harry Winston, and asked Michele Corvo to distribute the American brand's watches in our market. Maximilian Büsser's idea of transforming a purely feminine brand, through the Opus complicated collection, developed with the help of talented watchmakers (including Journe, Preziuso, and Baumgartner, to name but a few), proved successful.
Then, in 2005, MB&F (an acronym standing for 'Maximilian Büsser & Friends') was founded, and the idea was to develop a new collection of complicated watches, once again relying on the Corvo family to represent it in Italy. At the same time, Corvo opened a boutique to promote independent haute horlogerie: thus GMT - Great Matsers of Time was born. The MB&F Horological Machine and Legacy Machine collections then saw the light of day, and although they took a few years to be understood and appreciated, they too became successful productions. Today, the HM and LM are available in a few select shops around the world, such as the new GMT boutique on Via della Spiga in Milan, which from next year will have a dedicated MB&F space.
To celebrate these fruitful 30 years of collaboration and friendship between Maximilian Büsser and the Corvo family, a limited edition of the M.A.D.1, called the GMT Milano Edition, is now being presented. The M.A.D.1 GMT Milano Edition, produced in a limited edition of just 30 pieces, is powered by an automatic movement (Miyota calibre 821A, 21 jewels, 28,800 vibrations per hour, 42-hour power reserve), with an oscillating weight in tungsten and titanium on the dial side.
The latter is formed by a triple 'Space Halberd', as in MB&F watches. The time is read in a very original way, on the side of the case, by means of two cylindrical aluminium discs. The upper disc shows the hours, the lower the minutes, and the hour is read via a triangular indicator placed between the lower lugs. The gold-plated 4N finishes recall the first special series produced by other manufacturers for the Corvo family, while the perforated leather strap is Milan green. The steel case measures 42 mm in diameter.
