Franck Muller offers watchmaking from the heart
Love is in the air today. The flower shop was busy, the restaurants were booked, and Cupid spent the week at the archery range. If you're planning to buy a gift for your significant other, you'd better hurry up, but don't forget to make sure your gift is a romantic one. With passion in the air on this beautiful Friday, we can’t help but think of one of the most expressive passion watches of the past few years: the Franck Muller Cintrée Curvex Women’s Tourbillon. Featuring a heart-shaped tourbillon cage, diamond-set wings and a tightly curved case that wraps around the wrist, this high quality watches replica announces to the world that romance is far from dead.
In a world filled with safe and similar watch designs, Franck Muller is a breath of fresh air. As with this women’s tourbillon watch, the latest addition to the Cintrée Curvex collection, the confident use of color, the perfect balance of tradition and avant-garde, the exquisite details on the dial and the charming curves of the case are all hallmarks of the brand. The brand continues today since it was founded by the eponymous Mr. Muller 28 years ago.
For those who did not become interested in watches until after the turn of the millennium, it is difficult to understand how much influence Muller had on the modern watch industry, both technically and aesthetically. In 1984, as a 26-year-old upstart, he made his first tourbillon watch. At that time, almost no one knew what a tourbillon was, and only a handful of people could make a tourbillon. He threw 1930s-inspired forms, classical details, and traditional embellishments into a blender to create an exciting, avant-garde aesthetic that broke all the popular rules (ie: staid, safe, unimaginative). In short, Franck Muller showed the world that replica watches for sale could be technically fascinating, fun and beautiful – things we now take for granted.
Another reason why he’s one of my watchmaking heroes: he was an early advocate of “real” women’s watches – the “pink and shrink” school of (un)design is anathema. The same goes for the Cintrée Curvex women’s tourbillon, which brings together many of the brand’s hallmarks.
The hour numerals are in Franck Muller’s unique proprietary font (inspired by Breguet style, but definitely not classic Breguet), set against a classic sunray pattern guilloche background. (The pattern is embossed on the dial blank rather than turned by hand.) The dial’s rich luster is due to Franck Muller’s standard 20 layers of translucent lacquer, and the dial is entirely made in-house. The numbers themselves are hand-painted in two colors—a red border surrounding a black center—a delicate touch that prevents the red from overpowering other elements. replica audemars piguet watches
Technically, there's a lot to do - but it all ties in seamlessly with the aesthetic. The mechanisms of the hour and minute hands are off-centred to accommodate the large tourbillon aperture. The flying tourbillon is one of the smallest tourbillons in the world with a diameter of 11.60 mm and is mounted on ceramic ball bearings for optimal functionality. Another iconic pattern is borrowed from other products in the Franck Muller women's collection and is a true feature of its cages: the red heart.
The same goes for the hallmark of the Franck Muller brand: the Cintrée Curvex case. Cintrée translates as crooked or curved, but calling it a "crooked curve" is not a tautology. From the front, the case looks like a standard tonneau shape, but turning to its profile you'll see that it's curved to wrap around the wrist. (A little history: In the 1930s, elongated rectangles were the pinnacle of fashion in order to fit the Art Deco aesthetic; however, to fit comfortably on the wrist, these cases required curved undersides. In 1935, the Gruen Watch Company developed The original Curvex caliber 311 – a movement curved to fit the case. It became Gruen’s flagship model until discontinued in the 1950s.) The Curvex case – like the tourbillon – was almost extinct until Franck Muller revived it Launched and brought it into modern watchmaking. replica Richard Mille watches
For some, this women's tourbillon watch will be a love-at-first-sight watch; if you're not one of them - especially if you think the watch is too big - I highly recommend giving it a try.
Because it’s only when you put the Cintrée Curvex on your wrist and feel how comfortable it feels that you realize it’s more than just a pretty shape.
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