This Wacky New Watch Doubles as the Head of a Robot

For most watch brands, a new release means a new dial color, a slightly thinner case, or maybe a movement upgrade buried somewhere in the new model’s innards. For MB&F, it apparently means building a $384,000, 15-kilogram robot.

The latest creation from Maximilian Büsser’s horological concept laboratory is called the HM12 The Guardian, and it might be the purest expression yet of the ideas that have defined MB&F for the last two decades: sci-fi nostalgia, kinetic sculpture, and…