Christmas is approaching, and Franck Muller presents timeless charm with some exclusive watches, including The Vanguard Crazy Hours series representing the brand’s innovative spirit and technological accomplishment, Double Mystery elegantly interpreting lady styles. The diamonds, gems and special time displays highlight the brand’s “pampering” for female watch lovers. The holiday season is, of course, a good time for lovers to express their true love. For gentlemen who are passionate about machinery, Vanguard Gravity Tourbillon is the best choice; and the Vanguard Crazy Hours Lady’s watch with diamonds in the same color is amazing-special hour jump display function meets the dual needs of female watch enthusiasts for external design and internal technical functions.
For ladies: Vanguard Crazy Hours Lady watches are set with sparkling diamonds. The non-sequential display of digital time scales breaks the tradition and brings a unique and fun way to read the time. The hour hand will jump to the next correct digital time scale every 60 minutes, showing fashion in a casual way. The genuine alligator leather strap sets off the charming elegance.
The classic Double Mystery is created with the exquisite craftsmanship of Franck Muller. The exquisite design highlights the elegance and charm of women. Equipped with the hour and minute turntables with different speeds, inlaid with fine diamonds on the inside and outside, to get rid of pointers or digital scales, subvert the tradition, and define a new way of reading with gemstone time scales.
For gentleman: Vanguard Crazy Hours timepieces are bold and avant-garde in design, demonstrating the brand’s strength and unique aesthetics, suitable for fashion people who are not afraid of adventure. The dial is paired with embossed figures, the winding crown controls the hour-jump module and the automatic movement. The moving curve adds a different dynamic to Vanguard’s classic design.
For couples: The Vanguard Gravity Tourbillon watches are an ideal combination of advanced technology and sporty style. It is the perfect gift for lovers who seek precise timing tools. The perfect line blends the extraordinary power of the mechanical device. This watch has an outstanding design and presents a unique tourbillon frame concept with an innovative oval dial and aluminum structure. The 16 pieces of brilliant-cut diamonds decorated on 18k white gold buckle of the handmade alligator strap add refinement and value to the watch.
Franck Muller is definitely a contemporary watchmaker. He has been studying watchmaking since he was a child. After graduating from the Geneva Watch School, FP Journe, Kari Voutilainen and he are repairing antique clocks. As early as the 1980s, he already started to make his own watch and named it “Franck Genève”. In 1991, Franck Muller teamed up with the case manufacturer Vartan Sirmakes to establish the Franck Muller watch factory in Geneva and officially launched the watch brand–Franck Muller.
Before he founded Franck Muller, he has produced two very powerful pieces. One was the most complicated watch in the world at the time, and the other was the Rolex Perpetual Calendar.
In 1989, Franck Muller got a Louis Elysee Pigue big self-sounding three-question caliber. After getting this movement, he made an amazing move: transforming the pocket watch movement into a three-question time with big self-sounding, small self-sounding, questioning, asking, perpetual calendar until 2100, week, date, month, retrograde month time difference program, moon phase profit and loss, 24-hour display, and temperature display function.
The movement is wrapped in a Breguet-style case made of 950 platinum, and Franck Muller also tailored the platinum dial made by Grandjean. Franck Muller added 160 parts to the original movement, bringing the total number of parts to 651. This one-of-a-kind watch masterpiece has written an important page in the history of the watch industry. No one in the world ever made such a complicated watch. Three years later, in 1992, this successfully modified watch was unveiled at the Basel exhibition in Switzerland, becoming the most complicated watch of the exhibition.
Louis Elysee Pigue, the most complicated watch that was converted to the show, was a self-sounding three-question movement.
Transformed into a Rolex Ref.16238 with perpetual calendar function
From the above watches, the genius Franck Muller is innovative in creating an absolutely outstanding watch and is also good at modifying the unique functions on the basic movement.
Franck Muller Crazy Hours scale
There are many more success stories to be found. Today we want to feel the brand’s heritage and innovation. The development of the crazy hour watch series by Franck Muller.
Franck Muller Crazy Hours, which has been the subject of endless speculation since its launch because of the confusing arrangement of Arabic numerals on the dial. In 2019, the brand launched Crazy Hours Remember wristwatch, which once let the public see the innovation and strength of Franck Muller. It’s also given Crazy Hours a new lease of life.
In 2018, Crazy Hours, still looks young and fashionable today, has been available for 15 years! To that end, Franck Muller recently held a grand dinner in Singapore. Franck Muller, the watchmaker who founded the eponymous label in 1992 and launched Crazy Hours in 2003.
This does not follow the common sense of the timing, the corresponding activities, nature is also creative. The spacious set transforms into a colorful and fantastic world, where guests can explore five Spaces with Franck Muller Crazy Hours photos in the background and leave amazing images behind.
In addition, the dinner time is also topical, but it fits the theme of the series very well: “lunch” starts at 8:30 PM, “breakfast” at 9:45 PM, and “dinner” starts at 11:00 PM.
When I first saw this watch, it was on the Basel watch show in 2003. If I didn’t witness the real thing with my own eyes, I thought Franck Muller was joking with many watch fans! Because Crazy Hours, the way it’s arranged numerically on the dial, completely destroys the inherent law of the dial!
Time definitely lives up to its name. On the barreled dial, there are still 12 Art Deco Arabic numerals neatly arranged, but the order of the numerals is not from 1 to 12 clockwise. In fact, there is an originality of Franck Muller watchmaker behind. According to the watchmaker Mr. Franck Muller, time is a serious subject, which has an unchangeable and unshakable law. On the other hand, he thinks the time has an interesting side, so he designed the Crazy Hours watch without violating the law of the time.
If you want to know more about this watch, you can find the answer in the next issue of the blog. Of course, smart friends can leave a comment below, we can discuss together.
In fact, the “disorder” is inaccurate because it contains certain rules: the designer simply expands the original “one grid” (an hour’s scale) by five times through a set of shifting gears. It means that the hand moves five grids per hour, and so on. As the time moves from 1 o’clock to 12 o’clock, the hour hand had rotated nearly 5 turns around the dial. Except the crazy hours, the grain of the dial seems unique and it is easily to enhance the level of the watch.
In addition to the visit of Mr. Franck Muller to the party, there are also many celebrities attending the event.
New York Broadway-style dance performance: 12 professional dancers from all over the world, such as the jumping time pointer on the Crazy Hours watch. They gracefully walk around 12 numbers, just like flying on the dial. All show the superb watchmaking craftsmanship and unique creativity of Franck Muller.
Sum up:
Although Crazy Hours series has launched dozens of styles since its birth, the 15th anniversary Asian special edition watch that is launched in this year still gives people a bright feeling with more rich in color, and looks more energetic.
Recommended watch style
In addition to the variety of color and models, there are still many options for the material of the case. Available style in stainless steel, stainless steel with diamond-studded, red gold or red gold with diamond-studded. When plus a variety of color straps, arrange and combine, the style that you can choose from more than 40 kinds. And the case of various materials is available in three sizes (39.60mm x 55.40mm, 36.00mm x 50.40mm and 32.10mm x 45.10mm). The styles of men or women are also available in each from. I believe that you will find the one you love most.
