In 2009, MB&F was four years into its creative expression of mechanical art. Horological Machines No. 1 and No. 2 had established the guiding principles of the Maximilian Büsser & Friends collective: audacious design, transformative micromechanics, untrammeled imagination. Then came Horological Machine No. 3; HM3 had everything that HM1 and HM2 had before —the design, the micromechanics, the imagination— but its defiant three-dimensional construction shot MB&F into hyperspace.