Released in 2014, just nine short years after MB&F's founding, the MB&F Legacy Machine 101 focuses on the fundamentals of watchmaking; telling the time, the power reserve and showcasing the timepiece's own beating heart, its escapement and balance wheel. Released after MB&F’s famously complex LM1 and LM2 collections, the LM101 was a 'back to the basics' move for the watchmaker with a counterintuitively complex design. Launched in 2021 as a new variant within the collection, the LM101 that we have here is made of stainless steel and features an electric blue dial that sits below the LM101’s two white enamel subdials that house an hour and minute display at 2 o’clock and a power reserve indicator at 6 o’clock. An incredibly unique piece of watchmaking, the LM101’s 14mm balance spring takes center stage atop the blue dial as MB&F celebrate the fundamentals of watchmaking, the timepiece’s escapement assembly and balance wheel. Of course, on the other side of the watch is the LM101’s movement, which has been finished to legendary watchmaker MB&F collaborator Kari Voutilainen’s movement aesthetics and finishing specifications.

Watch is in near-mint condition, with only minor signs of use.

Created as a celebration of watchmaking's purest expression, the LM101 takes the balance wheel, a part of the movement that is often just forgotten about, and makes it the main draw to the LM101's design in what is a masterfully executed timepiece that seems to defy logic.