Horological Machine No. 6.
Swiss watchmaker MB&F's brand new Horological Machine No. 6 looks like it came out of a science fiction cartoon - because it did.

What the company calls its "most ambitious, most crazy, most complex project to date" was inspired by the spaceship from the 1970s anime Captain Future, a show the company's founder, Maximilian Büsser, used to watch as a kid.

The "Space Pirate," as the HM6 also goes by, doesn't have a traditional clock face, instead displaying the minutes and hours in two sapphire crystal spheres at the front of the watch.

The two other domes at the aft end of the watch house aluminum spherical turbines, which are supposed to moderate the watch's winding system to prevent wear and damage, but also look really sweet.

The seconds are displayed in the center of the watch via a "flying tourbillon," mimicking Captain Future's original engine.

To prevent harmful UV rays from causing damage to the watch, they've included a retractable titanium casing controlled by a winding mechanism to cover up the flying tourbillon when you're not looking at it.

The titanium shield in action.
Under the hood is a complex engine, which was developed with David Candaux Horlogerie Créative, with two aluminum turbines powered by an automatic winding rotor. It features a total of 475 components and 68 jewels.

The watchmaker says there will only be 100 HM6 models produced in total, with 50 of them being the special "Space Pirate" titanium edition.

Captain Future's spaceship.
They're playing it coy about how much it will cost, and as of this writing haven't responded to our price request, but this kind of thing doesn't come cheap.

An earlier model, the Horological Machine No. 4, would have set you back $158,000, and this one will probably cost even more; but nobody ever thought spaceships would come cheap.

This is what 475 components looks like.

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