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MAD “MAX”
Lift off with Maximilian Büsser’s rocket and write with a fountain pen again.
He’s like Peter Pan with his never-ending youth. And now the brains behind the watchmaking laboratory that is MB&F(Maximilian Büsser & Friends) can even fly.
He has reinterpreted tradition and given us contemporary horological machines inspired by our childhood. Today, though we live in an age of virtual keyboards, MB&F’s latest, the Astrograph, will have us writing with a fountain pen again, and for the price of 20,000 one-dollar roller pens, mind you.
Dreams are always bigger than reality. Every schoolboy has transformed his pen into an intergalactic projectile. ButBüsser has gone one better: he has built a spaceship that carries a fountain pen inside. It’s a real rocket, too; with a red reactor-engine, three mechanical stabiliser legs that keep it upright, even a ladder for a tiny astronaut to climb down and set foot on an unexplored planet.
Here, childhood dreams meet – and go beyond - hi-tech progress. For Büsser, all space vehicles still stand upright, like in sci-fi ‘50s comics, such as Tintin’s checkered, red-and-white vehicle. Outer space exploration however has gone horizontal; witness NASA’s moon LEM or Mars rover. No matter. MB&F’s Astrograph is a vertical vehicle that shifts time without telling the hour, and a real flight of fancy.
