MB&F x Eddy Jaquet Releases A Second Series of Eight Unique Pieces

The previous collaboration with Eddy Jaquet, launched in 2020 and inspired by the novels of Jules Verne; that first series of eight unique pieces would go on to win the prestigious GPHG Artistic Crafts Award in 2021. A few years later, MB&F announced a new collaboration reunited with their good friend and Master Engraver Eddy Jaquet.

The new deal is to release a second series of eight unique pieces, this time inspired by the great classic of youth literature. The Three Musketeers, The Jungle Book and Robinson Crusoe have just been completed; they will be joined by The Call of the Wild, The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, Robin Hood and Treasure Island.

The friendship between MB&F with Eddy Jaquet goes back to well over a decade, since he has been engraving the flowing script on their Legacy Machines – but that's just a tiny hint of his immense artistic talent. Eddy's transformative touch can turn a watch – in this case, the Legacy Machine Split Escapement – ​​into a rich storytelling tapestry. From a first list of 15 classic novels, Eddy selected eight that he then synthesized into entirely original illustrations. Like his Jules Verne series, none of the illustrations imagined by Eddy Jaquet are drawn from existing works of art; they are entirely conceived by the artist after reading the source books and viewing other creative works. Each engraving is an intricate tableau of the heroes, scenes and key moments from the novels, expressly designed to be interpreted through the medium of the LM Split Escapement.

Each novel is directly engraved on the LM SE movement's dial plate, modified to 18K white gold for this series of eight unique pieces. Each piece comes in a stainless steel case, with a slimmer bezel and openworked black subdials offering a fuller view of Eddy's masterpieces. Retail price of each unique piece is CHF 158,000 + VAT (USD 188,000 + tax).