M.A.D 3

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Client

MB&F - M.A.D Editions

Services

Film

Creative Direction

Industry

Watchmaking

Year

2026

Credits

Full in-house production : Amé Studio Additional motion control : Artaban TV

Infos

Vincent Calabrese has spent fifty years being watchmaking's troublemaker — l'enquiquineur de l'horlogerie, as he once called himself. Co-founder of the AHCI, his influence runs through modern independent watchmaking in ways that rarely get credited by name. For its third chapter, M.A.D.Editions brought his Baladin concept back to life: a wandering hour that moves slowly across the dial rather than jumping abruptly, because Calabrese always believed time should feel like it passes, not just be read. We directed the launch film, the second M.A.D. commercial we have made for MB&F, building it around Vincent's own voice and his way of seeing the world. Close portraits, extreme detail, blueprints and archival textures make a film that moves the way its subject does : between the precise, the poetic and the intimate. Flip the watch over, and the rotor quietly says everything else.

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