{"id":35062,"date":"2017-04-26T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=35062"},"modified":"2017-04-26T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:40:37","slug":"the-final-edition-is-limited-to-18-pieces-with-a-retail-price-of-chf79000vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/the-final-edition-is-limited-to-18-pieces-with-a-retail-price-of-chf79000vat\/","title":{"rendered":"MB&#038;F kills off Legacy Machine series at the peak of their popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is six years\u00a0since MB&amp;F launched the Legacy Machine N\u00b01 (LM1) series in 2011, establishing a collection high end\u00a0and complex wristwatches alongside the company&#8217;s\u00a0Horological Machines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now the company is bringing the series to the end with its swansong model released this year named the\u00a0Legacy Machine N\u00b01 Final Edition.<\/p>\n<p>In a counter-intuitive move, MB&amp;F is killing off the LM1 series at the very moment it is enjoying its greatest acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>In choosing a material to house this celebratory last outing of Legacy Machine N\u00b01, MB&amp;F picked steel over precious metals such as gold or platinum because it takes the focus off the exterior elements to better highlight the beauty of the LM1 Engine.<\/p>\n<p>The dark chocolate-toned face of the LM1 Final Edition is not the first instance of this colour appearing in an MB&amp;F creation.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever and whenever it occurs in the MB&amp;F collections, the deep brown hue signals a special occasion, a reason to break out the treats, and the Legacy Machine N\u00b01 Final Edition is no exception to this rule.<\/p>\n<p>MB&amp;F founder Maximilian B\u00fcsser describes the final LM1 as a bitter-sweet moment for the company. It is like 85% dark chocolate, he says enigmatically.<\/p>\n<p>The Final Edition is limited to 18 pieces with a retail price of CHF\/$79,000+VAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is six years\u00a0since MB&amp;F launched the Legacy Machine N\u00b01 (LM1) series in 2011, establishing a collection high end\u00a0and complex wristwatches alongside the company&#8217;s\u00a0Horological Machines. Now the company is bringing the series to the end with its swansong model released this year named the\u00a0Legacy Machine N\u00b01 Final Edition. In a counter-intuitive move, MB&amp;F is killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35063,"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":[7036,4,7,2,22],"tags":[5456,1407,262,268,1001],"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\/35062"}],"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=35062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=35062"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=35062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}