Over at Watchland Franck Muller had a lot to show though the highlights for me were a series of tourbillons including one with a 20 mm tourbillon cage.
As usual there were plenty of jewelled watches, including a whopper completely set with baguettes.
FM also showed a new line decorated with crocodile motif which is ill-advised in my opinion.
New case shape which is essentially a Cintree Curvex with hooded lugs.
Various models with Mystery hours.
And now the good stuff, all of them tourbillons. FM deserves more respect than it usually gets for complicated watches like these. The first is a series of skeleton tourbillons in either Cintree Curvex or round cases. All are well finished, especially the Aeternitas tourbillon. The Curvex skeletons are especially attractive.
Aeternitas Tourbillon (below)
Especially interesting is the Giga Tourbillon which features the biggest tourbillon ever made in a wristwatch, with the cage measuring in at 20 mm. In addition, it has a pair of stacked barrels – four barrels in total – that give a whopping ten day power reserve. All of that is packed into a massive case that measures about 60 by 40 mm.
Lastly FM presented a minute repeater with tourbillon. This used a revived vintage ebauche though the tourbillon cage is clearly a Claret. The level of finishing on this is impressive – look at the polished wolf’s teeth on the barrel.
- SJX
This message has been edited by SJX on 2011-01-30 07:24:11 This message has been edited by AnthonyTsai on 2011-01-30 16:20:01