Founded in 1839 by Auguste L’Epée in France’s Besançon region, the company originally focused on producing music boxes and watch components. L’Epée 1839 Maximilian Büsser and Arnaud Nicolas CEO of L’Épée 1839ĭedicated to making high-end clocks, L'Epée has been a prominent Swiss Manufacture for over 180 years. The challenge was to create an archetypical UFO of the 1950-60s, but without concealing any of the four elements.
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While the Fifth Element was to be larger than its individual elements, each element had to be a strong standalone feature in itself: the team identified and came to understand each element, their stories, and how to feature them in a highly original way without concealing mechanical features.Īfter defining the four elements, the next step was the design of the Fifth Element, the hub in which the pods are housed. The team researched weather stations across the last 100 years as well as the concepts of transparency, biomorphism, and both “inclusion” and “swarm” in animal/insect worlds. The Fifth Element is a confluence of fantasies from classic UFO films, books, and comics of the 1950-60s with the desktop weather stations that were popular before weather forecasts were available on our phones. MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser had long looked for a beautiful vintage desktop weather station for himself, but could never find exactly what he was after so with then intern-designer Stefano Panterotto he set about developing his own.
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While the Fifth Element attends to the serious side of weather forecasting with joyful fantasy, this space-age weather station was only made possible thanks to L'Epée 1839, which mastered the precision manufacturing of the intricate series of curves and circles within circles that make up the large structure. And, in the worst-case scenario, you can hitch a ride off planet Earth with Ross. Four (UFO) elements: clock, barometer, hygrometer, and thermometer combine in a mother ship (with Ross, the alien pilot) to create an entity much larger than the sum of its parts: The Fifth Element.Īn analogue weather station might at first glance appear anachronistic however, when the storm hits and the power goes down, the Fifth Element will still work perfectly. The Fifth Element is an intergalactic horological weather station enabling accurate weather forecasting even when the power goes down.
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