Frank Muller: are they for real?
Folks, Mostel's recent post on Hermes brought about an interesting discussion about why and who we buy watches from. This brought on a question that has long lingered in my mind - why is Frank Muller not considered a WIS watch brand? Apologies if they are...
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In the beginning it was pure haute horlogerie. Production was low and for most watch enthusiast he was a genius. Go back to the ealry 1990's and you'll find some very interesting and wonderfull pieces But at some point they choose to make it wider availab...
Nothing against ETA, BTW.
It's just that I thought all FM movements were made in-house.
My understanding.....
Is that all complications are made in house and the starters were ETA. No idea about the chinese movmts though. J.
a link
http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/economie/story/Les-mouvements---7-francs-de-Franck-Muller-16306649 in French but her's some translation It's like opening the hood of a Ferrari and finding the engine of a little Ciroën car. An independant watchmaker in Ge...