This isn’t a watch. It’s a horological machine. In fact, short of salivating over its aesthetics and admiring (what we can only imagine is) the incredibly complex engineering, our humble knowledge of watches doesn’t allow us much scope to comment on this at all…

Each pair of barrels needs to equalize their energy with the other around the void of the tourbillon in the narrowest section of the movement. Distributing that immense power required the development of a sophisticated beryllium gear train. Using four mainspring barrels in parallel enabled MB&F to reduce the torque of each mainspring, thus improving accuracy, decreasing wear and increasing longevity - all while maintaining an incredible seven days reserve of power!

See what we mean? Mere mortals like us would be wasted on a timepiece like this.

But it is cool. Damn cool. Emotionally cool. We would give up close friends and relations for this watch.

MB&F Horological Machine No.1 [via Retro Thing]