Franck Muller Watch

Franck Muller is known by his peers as the “Master of Complications”.  As child his interest in what makes clock “tick” set him off to study watch making at the prestigious Geneva School of Watch on 1981. After four years of extensive studies with him graduating with honours, Muller decided to set up how own shop as opposed to joining the already established watch companies. Franck Muller is a watch-maker in the truest sense of the word.

In no time, Muller’s reputation as an excellent watch maker spread.  Watch collectors and prominent auction houses were sending Muller time pieces for repair.  In 1983, Muller presented his first line of wristwatches. Each year from then on he unveils a new creation and invention.  The first watch that premiered under Franck Muller was the Long Island Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Dia.  The Revolution Tourbillon is a “flying tourbillon” where the tourbillion carriage comes up levelled to the sapphire glass and remains so until the push-button is released.  The hour and minute hands “fly” to 12 o-clock then “fly” back to the real time when the push-button is released. His first patent was The Tourbillon (1983) where a single axis was used.  A classic example of this invention is the Crazy-Hour Tourbillon. The watch is unique because aside from the new concept-tourbillion, the numbers on the dial are not in the expected sequence. The normal 1 to 12 clockwise rotation does not happen as the numbers skip all over the dial.

Other inventions that premiered are:  Revolution 2 Tourbillon; Totally Crazy; Master Banker Lunar Tourbillon; Crazy Hour Tourbillon; Minute Repeater Tourbillon; Irregular Retrogade Hour with Moon Phases and the Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar and the Curvex Minute Repeater Tourbillon of which there are only 25 pieces made.

In 1992 Franck Muller established his own watch company aptly named The House of Franck Muller. He was compelled to establish a watch factory for his growing clientele. In 1998 marked the year that Franck Muller conceptualized, designed and created the “most complicated” watch in the history of watch-making. The wristwatch is combination of Petite  and Grande Sonnerie with 3 positions, a flying Tourbillon,  Perpetual Calendar with a traditional monthly equation, 24-hour indicator, Minute Repeater,  a split-second Chronograph with a 60-minute timer, an internal temperature indicator, a power-reserve movement and a power-reserve striking-mechanism.

In 2001 Muller saw to the construction of the “Watchland”- his company’s factory where guests can make appointments to tour the place. This concept made it possible for the public to view the manufacture and assembly of a watch from start to finish.

Today Franck Muller creations are more accessible to consumers as production does not depend on personal orders anymore. There are now dealers from the United States and Canada. Franck Muller watches are elegant, efficient, innovative and precise aside from being “quite” complicated. Each Franck Muller watch is stamped with the words “Master of Complications”. The phrase could be taken literally or figuratively. Telling the time using Franck Muller’s Crazy Hour watch is such an ingenious and fun idea. Truly the man has every right to be called a genius!

To date, Franck Muller has several collections that showcase his innovations and talent.  The Mariner debuted in 2008 and is a chronograph that displays hours and minutes, seconds and date.  The Cintree Curvex is a complicated watch but with new contour.  Other collection lines are: Casablanca; Chronograph; Colour Dreams; Conquistador; the Jewellery line; Long Island line; Master Banker; Master Calendar; Perpetual Calendar; the Tourbillon and the Grandprix.

The Colour Dreams collection is for the young-at-heart as the very colourful watches in Crazy Hour or Master Square details are “hip” and “young”.  The Perpetual calendar will give its wearer the most accurate reading of time.  The Jewellery line has the accuracy and precision of a Franck Muller watch plus Top Wesselton diamonds.

Franck Muller merges the traditional and the modern to make beautiful and precise one-of-a-kind watches.

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The Company Franck Muller was founded in 1991 making it currently only 19 years old – a complete child when compared to brands with pedigrees like Breguet or Patek. But as much as we respect and value a timepiece with history and a legacy you can not take the fact away from Franck Muller, that they strive to produce some amazingly complicated watches – one cannot help but draw comparisons with a young Monsieur Abraham Louis Breguet who as a young man had similar such aims and accomplishments.

From creating some exquisite movements, Franck Muller went on to miniaturising his complications, he created the cintree curvex case, a case that is curved meaning his movements would have to be modified to accommodate this spectacular design. The cintree curvex was inspired by the 1920’s Patek Philippe watches and really does identify the Franck Muller watch range.

Again like Breguet,  Frank Muller wants to be the first to produce certain complications in 1993 his world premier (each year he showcases a watch featuring a never before seen complication or combination of complications) item featured a split seconds Chrono, a minute repeater and a perpetual calendar.

Franck Muller went as far as to produce the worlds most complicated wrist watch in 1998. The watch included the following; a Grande and Petite Sonnerie (with 3 positions), a Minute Repeater, a Perpetual Calendar (with retrograde monthly equation), 24-hour indicator, a split-second Chronograph (with 60-minute timer), a flying Tourbillon, indicator of the internal temperature of the mechanism, power-reserve striking-mechanism, power-reserve movement. This really established the brand as a “master of complications” the ingenuity in the design and the handmade craftsmanship produced some of the world’s finest watches.

One very innovative design by Franck Muller, which we think is marvellous, is the creation of the crazy hours range, to a rational person a watch should always tell the correct time, however this line of watches have the hours in a jumbled order, the watch tells the correct time, but a wearer is forced to think about the time. The crazy hours range is great for parties and a real talking point while wearing the watch.

In the early 00’s Franck Muller went through a bit of a boon becoming very popular with footballers and celebrities, he had some exceptional celebrity endorsement this really raised the watches profile among the masses, unfortunately this translated to the watches loosing favour with some of the traditional watch collectors. Although their marketing department has recently made an effort to polish their image it still isn’t uncommon to hear Franck Muller pieces degradedly referred to as “footballers watches”. However, we must not forget that Franck Muller, in its 19 year history was granted the first prize, in the men’s category, of the Geneve Watch Making Grand Prix. This exclusive prize confirms the watchmaker’s exceptional talent.

All in all we are a huge lover of watches and complications, we think they are intriguing and we’re not so bothered about who else wears a Franck Muller as having one on your wrist and being so close to passion that strove to keep pushing the boundaries of horology feels pretty special. It’s while studying these exceptional time pieces that we just fell in love with them, definitely a Franck Muller belongs in everyones watch collection. New Franck Muller watches retail from about £3,500 to £500,000 and from iconic watches you can expect a great deal. We love FM and we have several years of sales experience with this brand.