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Franck Muller watches: Pushing the Envelope of Complicated Watchmaking
Posted on October 29th, 2007 5 comments
There’s no question that the house of Franck Muller has presented some of the most mind-bending complicated watches of the modern era. I remember back when I first became “acquainted” with the brand around 1996, and saw some of his incredible creations–watches with every conceivable mechanical function united in a single mechanism; perpetual calendar, tourbillon, minute repeater, equation of time, and others. It didn’t take me long to comprehend why Franck Muller had created such a buzz amongst serious collectors of unusual and rare watches.
Nothing has changed that focus more than a decade later. I think that the current Aeternitas timepieces perhaps best exemplify the striving to achieve the impossible that has driven this brand from the early days. The Aeternitas IV watch, particularly, is absolutely “over the top”, combining a tourbillon, split-seconds chronograph, time equation, and perhaps most interesting of all, a perpetual calendar which bucks the divisibility rule of the Gregorian calendar, exempting it from the adjustment which most perpetual calendar watches require every 100 years.
Watches like this leave no doubt as to why Franck Muller has earned the name “Master of Complications”!
4 responses to “Franck Muller watches: Pushing the Envelope of Complicated Watchmaking”
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Hey Adam, is this movement built entirely in house? I know that Franck Muller generally modifies ETA movements, even for their complications. Wondering, since this watch is so expensive, if they did it all at Watchland?
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Watchguy,
This piece is a Watchland conception, all the way-as are almost all of the extremely complicated pieces.
The ETA calibers are reserved for the more “bread and butter” pieces, such as basic automatics and simple chronographs.
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can anyone help? my new franck muller transamerica watch second hand moves in 5 sec. intervals mainly when power reserve seems to be low. is that normal. thanks ed
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can anyone help? my new franck muller transamerica watch second hand moves in 5 sec. intervals mainly when power reserve seems to be low. is that normal. thanks ed
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WatchGuy October 30th, 2007 at 15:30