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In our twenty years of horology, this is the greatest challenge Serge Kriknoff and I have been up to.So what is the Thunderbolt ? A tribute to Ation... Why ? Because from the age of 8 to 12-13 I spent every free minute crafting model airplanes... replica Corum 11140.119610 watch They were everywhere in my room.Hanging from the ceilings, accumulating on the shelves, in the cupboards.I would spend hours assembling, modifying, painting anything which had two wings.HM4 is a very personal interpretation of what would happen if you crossed a piece of ultra high end horology with the world of aeronautics. /v/lqcTnIhhPJU;hl=en_US;fs=1?hd=1" / vtrue" / /View all other MB;F timepieces.

Retail $158,000Press ReleaseHorological Machine No4 ThunderboltA traditional wristwatch has a relatively straightforward role: to tell the time.All that is needed is a hand for the hours, another for the minutes and perhaps a power reserve indicator to keep track of running time.Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt has a hand for the hours, replica Corum 02320.742001 watch another for the minutes and a power reserve indicator.HM4 Thunderbolt tells the time.??HM4 Thunderbolt is not a traditional wristwatch.The ation-inspired case and engine of the Thunderbolt are one.Neither would, nor could, exist without the other, yet each is so transcendental as to be able to stand alone as a work of art in its own right.

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