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While Franck Muller as a brand today is most associated with gem-set colourful watches such as the Crazy Hour and Golden Square, it is very easy to forget that the origins of the company lay with a man who shares the name with the brand, but have now gone their separate ways.
Born in 1958 and spending his early life in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, having trained at the Ecole d'Horlogerie de Geneve he entered the watchmaking industry in perhaps the darkest hour: the early 1980s when the quartz crisis was deeply entrenched and many brands where in the process of difficult restructuring and wide scale redundancies. But as it is always darkest before the dawn, many of the now great independent watchmakers such as Philippe Dufour and Francois-Paul Journe were toiling away in workshops, sometimes within other brands, honing their craft before launching their own brands.
Muller was determined to forge his own course and, having worked closely with AHCI co-founder Svend Andersen, servicing and repairing fine vintage watches such as Patek Philippe, created his own tourbillon, an exceptionally rare feat at the time and significantly more challenging than it is today.
With momentum growing with commission from his network of private collectors, he founded his own brand in 1991 and started on the series of ultracomplicated World Premieres culminating in some of the most complicated wristwatches ever made.
Reference 7002 RMTQPCR offered in in platinum as a unique piece is the perfect embodiment of this heady golden period of independent watchmaking, with great craftsmen working to push the boundaries of horology. Combining a tourbillon, split seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar and minute repeater in a relatively compact case that remains wearable day to day is a true feat of engineering and deserves significantly more applaud that these early creations from the Master of Complications currently receive.
Born in 1958 and spending his early life in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, having trained at the Ecole d'Horlogerie de Geneve he entered the watchmaking industry in perhaps the darkest hour: the early 1980s when the quartz crisis was deeply entrenched and many brands where in the process of difficult restructuring and wide scale redundancies. But as it is always darkest before the dawn, many of the now great independent watchmakers such as Philippe Dufour and Francois-Paul Journe were toiling away in workshops, sometimes within other brands, honing their craft before launching their own brands.
Muller was determined to forge his own course and, having worked closely with AHCI co-founder Svend Andersen, servicing and repairing fine vintage watches such as Patek Philippe, created his own tourbillon, an exceptionally rare feat at the time and significantly more challenging than it is today.
With momentum growing with commission from his network of private collectors, he founded his own brand in 1991 and started on the series of ultracomplicated World Premieres culminating in some of the most complicated wristwatches ever made.
Reference 7002 RMTQPCR offered in in platinum as a unique piece is the perfect embodiment of this heady golden period of independent watchmaking, with great craftsmen working to push the boundaries of horology. Combining a tourbillon, split seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar and minute repeater in a relatively compact case that remains wearable day to day is a true feat of engineering and deserves significantly more applaud that these early creations from the Master of Complications currently receive.