MB&F has opened its 2026 watchmaking calendar with the LM Sequential Flyback EVO, a more capable evolution of its already unconventional double chronograph platform.
The watch takes the Legacy Machine Sequential concept into sharper technical territory, adding flyback functionality to both chronographs while keeping the practical EVO case architecture that makes the piece feel less like a safe queen and more like an experimental machine built to be worn.
A double chronograph with two flybacks
At the centre of the LM Sequential Flyback EVO is a 621-component movement developed with Stephen McDonnell, the independent watchmaker behind some of MB&F’s most important modern complications.
The appeal here is not simply that the watch contains two chronographs, but that each can be reset and restarted instantly via flyback operation, opening up timing possibilities beyond a conventional chronograph or even a classic split-seconds layout.
The Sequential family’s key trick remains the Twinverter, a binary switch that can start, stop or invert both chronographs together, allowing the watch to handle events such as alternating intervals, lap comparisons or back-to-back timing sequences with a kind of mechanical logic rarely seen on the wrist.
The EVO case makes the complication wearable
The case measures 44mm across and 18.2mm thick, dimensions that place it firmly in statement-watch territory, but the use of grade 5 titanium helps keep the watch aligned with the EVO brief.
That brief matters because MB&F’s EVO line was created to make complex Legacy Machines more resistant to the realities of daily wear, rather than leaving them as delicate horological sculptures.
Here, that means an integrated rubber strap, a screw-down crown, 80 metres of water resistance and MB&F’s FlexRing shock-absorbing system, which sits between the case and movement to help protect the calibre from impacts.
Aquamarine architecture under a domed crystal
The dial plate is finished in aquamarine, giving the watch a bright architectural backdrop without softening the mechanical density of the display.
As with the best Legacy Machines, the LM Sequential Flyback EVO avoids the flat, instrument-like layout of many chronographs and instead turns elapsed time into a three-dimensional arrangement of indications, bridges and mechanical theatre.
The tilted time display keeps the hours and minutes legible despite the surrounding complexity, with black-on-aquamarine contrast helping the watch remain readable rather than merely spectacular.
Price and collector fit
The MB&F LM Sequential Flyback EVO is priced at CHF 168,000 before VAT, with listed equivalents of EUR 181,000 and USD 230,000 before applicable taxes.
This is a watch for collectors who already understand high-end chronographs and want something more intellectually playful than a traditional rattrapante, yet still grounded in real timing utility.
It also reinforces why MB&F’s Legacy Machine line remains one of modern independent watchmaking’s most fertile spaces, because the LM Sequential Flyback EVO does not just decorate a complication differently, it changes how that complication can be used.
