{"id":32920,"date":"2016-12-06T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=32920"},"modified":"2017-04-15T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T07:23:42","slug":"highly-commended-showstopper-of-the-year-mbf-legacy-machine-perpetual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/highly-commended-showstopper-of-the-year-mbf-legacy-machine-perpetual\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLY COMMENDED: Showstopper of the Year, MB&#038;F Legacy Machine Perpetual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Having created the perpetual calendar movement once, you would think the watchmaking community would breathe a sigh of relief and use the same architecture in perpetuity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not MB&amp;F, which went back to the drawing board to create a brand new in house movement controlled by what it calls a mechanical processor.<\/p>\n<p>Most perpetual calendars, which are designed fundamentally for 31 day months, but have a mechanism to skip quickly to the 1st of a new month following a 28 or 30 day month.<\/p>\n<p>The LM Perpetual goes the other way round, starting from a 28 day month and inserting extra days in the 11 longer months.<\/p>\n<p>With such an innovative movement, you will want to see it in action, and this is possible through the open dial and the sapphire crystal back.<\/p>\n<p>The face has hours and minutes nestled between the arches of the balance at 12 o\u2019clock; day of the week at 3 o\u2019clock, power reserve indicator at 4 o\u2019clock, month at 6 o\u2019clock, retrograde leap year indicator at 7 o\u2019clock, and date at 9 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p>Only 50 pieces have been produced so far, half in 18ct gold and half in platinum priced at CHF 181,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having created the perpetual calendar movement once, you would think the watchmaking community would breathe a sigh of relief and use the same architecture in perpetuity. Not MB&amp;F, which went back to the drawing board to create a brand new in house movement controlled by what it calls a mechanical processor. Most perpetual calendars, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7026,9176],"tags":[5897,9235,268,229,1900,139],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=32920"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=32920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}