If you’ve been looking for that one eye-catching item that really brings your man cave together, the Starfleet Explorer clock is back and more beautiful than ever.
Clocks are funny things. Sure, they tell you’re that you’re running late, but they have also long been prized for their beauty and their complexity. Six years after the first Starfleet Machine was unveiled, MB&F has created the Starfleet Explorer, a smaller, more compact but no less alluring clock that captivates the imagination.
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Designed by MB&F, the Starfleet Explorer is an intergalactic spaceship-cum-table clock crafted by L’Epée 1839, the last remaining Swiss manufacture specialising in high-end table clocks. Not only does it display the hours and minutes, it also features an animation in which three spacecraft perform a five-minute orbit of the station.
The highly visible, superlatively finished in-house movement boasts an exceptional eight-day power reserve. The mechanism can be manually wound using a double-ended key serving to wind the movement as well as to set the time.
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Hours and minutes are indicated by means of two discs, along with an aperture and a brightly-coloured hand. More specifically, the minutes on a revolving radar dish are read off when they appear through the centre of a satin-brushed and anodised metal aperture that follows the dome’s curved contours.
The hours disc placed just below remains motionless. An hour hand – likewise satin-brushed and anodised – indicates the hour by spinning in its place and performing a complete turn around the disc in 12 hours.
The Starfleet Explorer also three tiny spacecraft, lined up along the same axis at regular intervals and placed inside the actual Starfleet movement, the heart of the mechanism, around which they revolve at a rate of one full turn every five minutes: a space exploration guided by the mothership.
The Starfleet Explorer’s movement is placed horizontally, but its escapement is vertically positioned. The impeccably finished stainless stain or palladium-treated brass components (with the exception of the 11 jewels) are designed and manufactured in the L’Epee 1839 Swiss atelier, while the gears and mainspring barrel are on full display thanks to the skeletonised mainplate and concentric C-shaped external structure.
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The Starfleet Explorer, which is limited to just 99 pieces in each colour – blue, green and red – can rest on both ends of its vertical landing gear; a useful feature when turning it over to wind the mainspring and set the time. It can also be leant sideways to offer a different view of the intergalactic horological station.
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