> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.itsabouttime.email/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # MB&F Fills The Platinum LM101 With Cloisonné Enamel Jungles In Blue, Red And Green - URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/mb-f-fills-the-platinum-lm101-with-cloisonne-enamel-jungles-in-blue-red-and-green/ - Published: 2026-11-12T09:10:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-12T09:10:45.000Z - Author: Vuk Radic - Tags: News MB&F’s Legacy Machines take 19th-century pocket watch ideas and rebuild them in three dimensions, with the balance lifted above the dial where you can watch it beat away. The LM101 came out in 2014 as the smallest and simplest of them, a 40mm watch with time, power reserve and that suspended balance. It’s a crowded surface for an artist to do their work, and MB&F has tried this before with Eddy Jaquet’s hand-engraved Jules Verne scenes on the LM Split Escapement. Now, however, MB&F has cleaned up the entire surface of anything superfluous to allow for a cleaner canvas. That's why we get three LM101 editions with cloisonné enamel dials done by Gabriel Colliard: a blue one with a monkey, a red one with two macaws and a green one with a crocodile. Colliard studied fine art in Argentina, trained as an enameller in Limoges and worked at Patek Philippe before going independent, and MB&F let him choose the subjects. The case is made out of platinum, 40mm wide and 16.5mm thick, with the crown at 4 o’clock. That's a seriously thick watch, yes, but a lot of that is the heavily domed sapphire crystal on top that extends far from the case to make room for the balance. There's also a sapphire crystal out back. Water resistance is 30 meters, but you really don't need more. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_2-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_3-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_4-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_5-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_6-1.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_7-1.jpg) The case is impressive, but the dials. Oh, wow, those dials. Colliard bends gold wire by hand to draw each scene, then fills the cells with enamel and fires them, over and over, until the color has depth. His first sketches used a wide palette, in the style of 1950s cloisonné. MB&F asked for one main color per dial, which makes the job harder because tone and transparency have to separate the elements instead of contrasting colors. MB&F also thinned the dial plate so it could hold more layers of enamel, and it removed the two raised sub-dials and fitted longer hands. The time is still indicated at 2 o’clock with the power reserve gauge at 6, but now the painting runs underneath them. The balance still hangs over the scene between 9 and 11 o’clock. Colliard finishes about one dial a month, so all 24 will take more than two years, and no two will be identical. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_8.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_9.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_10.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_11.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_12.JPG) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/11/high_res_MBandF_LM101_Gabriel_Colliard_Still_Trio_13.JPG) The movement is MB&F’s own hand-wound calibre, with 231 parts and 23 jewels, running at 2.5Hz. Power reserve is now 60 hours, up from 45, and the 14mm balance carries a Straumann double hairspring. Kari Voutilainen was tasked with decorating the movement, and he set the finishing to old pocket watch standards: Geneva waves, polished bevels, gold chatons and countersunk blued screws. Colliard also enamelled the ratchet wheel on the back to match the front. It comes on a strap in brown alligator with a steel deployant capped in white gold. The MB&F LM101 Gabriel Colliard is limited to 8 watches per color and it's priced at €107,000, without taxes. See more [on the MB&F website](https://www.mbandf.com/machines/mbf-machines/performance-art/mbf-x-gabriel-colliard?ref=itsabouttime.email).