MB&F HM8

MB&F HM8

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The new HM8 (Horological Machine No.8) is the result of a simple equation: HM8 = 5 + 3.

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“5” because like its predecessor HM5 (and HMX), this new Machine revives a powerful emotion from our childhood: our dreams of fast supercars and motor racing. More specifically, this time, we remembered the legendary “Can-Am” racing championship, which started exactly 50 years ago – a crazy, no-limits series which generated amazing, insanely powerful cars during the late 60s and 70s. Many of those cars produced by the likes of McLaren, Lola or Porsche featured open engines protected by roll bars – one of the most striking traits of our new Machine, nicknamed “HM8 Can-Am”.

“3” because HM8 also stems from another childhood hero: our friend (and saviour of the Universe) Grendizer, the famous Japanese anime TV character. Grendizer’s mighty double battle-axe has been present in our MB&F’s Machines since the very beginning – most visibly in the HM3 series, in the form of an oversized winding rotor placed dial side. That famous battle-axe rotor is back on the HM8, sitting firmly between the Can-Am roll bars.

The HM8 fine-finished automatic movement drives bi-directional jumping hours and sweeping minutes – projected vertically thanks to optical-grade sapphire crystal prisms. A driver’s watch, available in two versions, combining Grade-5 titanium with 18-ct red or white gold it’s arguably the most three-dimensional and detailed of MB&F’s  creations till date!