This spring, Franck Muller unveiled an unforgettable array of new timepieces. Arriving in sizes that suit any gender, these ravishing labors of love necessitated a great deal of engineering and technical innovation in order to achieve great levels of beauty and complexity.
One of the most eye-catching pieces is the Cintrée Curvex Retrograde Hour Tourbillon, which sees a tourbillon integrated — for the first time — into a retrograde hour, one of Franck Muller’s favorite complications. Indicating the hour on a 220-degree retrograde arc, this timepiece arrives with the brand’s Color Dreams numerals and a diamond-set case and crown.
Another milestone timepiece for the brand is the Grand Central Tourbillon Flash CX 36, a new take on the original Grand Central Tourbillon, which was the world’s first tonneau-shaped central tourbillon watch. The fruit of more than a year of research and development, the classic Franck Muller-style tourbillon is located at the center of a microblasted matte black brass dial, surrounded by richly colored indexes and enthroned within a blackened titanium case. The tourbillon for