It has financed what an expert calls the first catalogue raisonné, or complete history, in the watch industry.
In the art world, publications called catalogues raisonnés are authoritative records of an artist’s complete works. And now, in what is being called a first in the watch world, “MB&F: The First Fifteen Years” is to be published later this year.
“A catalogue raisonné in watchmaking is totally unique and was unheard-of” before the MB&F book, Pascal Ravessoud, director of external affairs at the industry organization Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, wrote in an email.
Maximilian Büsser, founder of MB&F, or Maximilian Büsser & Friends, supported the idea: “For years people have been telling
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