The X Factor
WHAT MAKES A FREAK? We don’t mean it in the existential sense—although that is something you are free to contemplate—but in the horological sense. Ulysse Nardin’s Freak collection, created in 2001 under the auspices of late founder and industry legend Rolf Schnyder, has become one of the brand’s most defining timepieces. Given the watch’s unusual and distinctive nature—the original had no dial, hands or crown—the question of
