You know, there are a lot of people doing good things out there these days, but a few doing great things. So when we can, we strive to do our best to support the few who are truly doing things differently than the rest, often times with a goal in mind that is much larger, and more selfless than the rest. Max Büsser and his friends (MB&F) is one that, from the minute I began to cover timepieces with any regularity, I knew was something special. His machines are fanciful, daring, occasionally bordering on the absurd, but always exceptionally well made, and the product of unrelenting passion for, not the easiest way to do things, but for the way things should be done – something that we at HODINKEE firmly believe in. And that is why today, we are proud to launch a limited edition partnership with MB&F for five truly incredible mechanical works of art: The Music Machine 2 "Gunmetal" made exclusively for HODINKEE.

You may remember Music Machine 1 from the video that we produced before Basel World 2013 to introduce it to the world. MB&F had teamed with up Reuge, who pioneered the mechanical music box category almost 150 years ago, to make something very special. I loved MusicMachine 1, and when Max told me he had something even more special lined up for MM2, we had to be a part of it. So what is this special, HODINKEE-only Music Machine? Well, it's arguably the most advanced, most technically impressive, and detail obsessed mechanical music box in the world, and ours, in gunmetal grey, is the most limited in production. But there is more to it than that.