Above:
Watchland.
From left to right:
Vanguard Lady Skeleton.
The Franck Muller Remember,
with diamonds.
AT ITS 29TH ANNUAL WORLD PRESENTATION OF HAUTE
HORLOGERIE this January Franck Muller noted that it has expanded its
Genthod estate known as Watchland. The company has just added two new
buildings, which total 16,000 square meters, to the multi-building Swiss
village. Franck Muller now boasts 450 craftsmen and employees on the site.
In addition to showing off its newest facilities, Franck Muller unveiled
several of its 2019 collections, including the Vanguard Crazy Hours, Vanguard
Lady Skeleton, Vanguard Racing and Vanguard Yachting Anchor Skeleton, not
to mention a completely new collection called Remember.
DON’T’ FORGET
Franck Muller’s newest collection, called Remember, presents the hour
figures in the opposite clockwise direction. Remember’s hour, minute and
second hands will follow an unconventional rotation, making a circle in a
counter-clockwise direction.
The full collection is available in a 31mm by 43mm rose gold, white gold or
stainless steel case with a dial set with diamonds or stamped guilloche with
sunray pattern, finished with twenty layers of lacquer and the Franck Muller
numerals.
Also at WPHH, Franck Muller added several new collections aimed
to attract women watch collectors. Most notably, there’s a new women’s
Vanguard model in the complex Crazy Hours collection. The timepiece
displays numerals in an unconventional order, with a typical Art Deco pop-art
style. Driven by a patented mechanism, the central hours hand jumps from
one hour to the next, consistently following the correct sequence of numerals
even though they are randomly placed on the dial. Every sixty minutes, the
hand jumps to the next correct numeral, while the minutes hand continues its
traditional sweep around the dial.
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