Detailed description
The Geneva-based company in a partnership with iconic luxury music box maker, Reuge, created what it calls the “Music Machine.” It’s a music box that is outside the box in every way imaginable.
Two traditional metal cylindrical cones contain 72 notes each and play six melodies. It uses 1,400 precision-placed pins that pluck the teeth of a “comb” as the cylinder revolves. It works in a traditional way but they are exposed on top of a sleek, futuristic looking spacecraft made in walnut that works as a sound amplification chamber.
The songs performed by the cones are far from traditional. The one cone plays deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” (which was actually inspired by a fire during the Montreux Jazz Festival), Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The second cone performs the Star Wars theme and the “Imperial March” from Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, and the Star Trek theme song.
As one would expect it is a limited edition item, in this case 66 pieces: 33 in a white lacquer finish and 33 in black lacquer. The cost is $12,300 Swiss francs ($13,174), about a quarter of what a MB&F watch starts at. However, good luck finding one as the entire line is sold out.
