Franck Muller

Though a relative newcomer to the world of Haute Horlogerie compared to other iconic brands with histories spanning decades, Franck Muller is already a legendary name in the field of premium watchmaking. It’s a Swiss brand established in 1991 by Franck Muller and Vartan Sirmakes that quickly gained prominence for its exquisite craftsmanship, innovative designs, and complex watch mechanisms.

Franck Muller himself is a talented watchmaker from Genève who garnered significant recognition prior to founding the brand, having restored several notable antique timepieces and created a number of groundbreaking watches. Aiming to move watchmaking to a completely new level, in 1983 he presented his first original watch with a highly complicated mechanism. Every year since then he has released a World Premier, a watch design with unique complications such as a tourbillon visible from the front, giga tourbillon, or perpetual calendar.

From its inception, the Franck Muller brand set itself apart with its unique approach to watchmaking. It confidently made a statement in 1992 with the creation of its signature Cintrée Curvex tonneau-shaped case design, which became a hallmark of Franck Muller watches.

In 2009, the world’s most complicated watch saw the world. The Franck Muller watch Aeternitas Mega is a micro-mechanic wonder with 36 complications, 1,483 components, and a record-breaking 1,000-year calendar that has earned the brand the “Master of Complications” reputation.

Facts & Features of the Franck Muller Brand

Each Franck Muller watch for sale is a work of art, reflecting the brand’s dedication to pushing the boundaries of watchmaking while maintaining the highest standards of quality and luxury. Franck Muller owes its phenomenon in the world of Haute Horlogerie to a combination of unique features.

Innovative Complications

The genius behind the brand’s elaborate movements is the unique complications developed and refined to perfection by its founder and the biggest watchmaking innovator, Franck Muller. The so-called grand complications of Franck Muller embrace:

• Triaxial Tourbillon: An exceptional advancement in balancing gravity in all directions, surpassing common tourbillons which are only enabled in a vertical position.
• Fast Tourbillon: Driven by four barrels, this tourbillon makes a quick 5-second rotation.
• Giga Tourbillon: A 20mm diameter tourbillon that occupies half of the dial, ensuring an impressive 9-day power reserve.
• Perpetual Calendar: Displays the day, date, month, year, and moon phase, embracing the period up to the year 2100. The Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Bi-Retro further advances with a chronograph and retrograde indications.
• Tourbillon with Minute Repeater: A technological marvel that neutralizes gravity in all positions, showcasing Haute Horlogerie complications at their best.
• Grand Central Tourbillon: Moves from its conventional position at 6 o’clock to the center of the watch.
• Elliptical Tourbillon Structure: 21.2mm in diameter and 7.7mm in height, ensuring a three-dimensional aspect for the watch.

Luxurious Materials

All models you’ll find in our Franck Muller watch boutique in London are an ode to luxury and prestige, crafted from the finest materials, such as:

• Precious metals for cases, providing a timeless and elegant appeal.
• High-quality stainless steel known for its robustness and resistance to corrosion, ensuring the longevity of the timepieces.
• Scratch-resistant and anti-reflective sapphire crystal for faces to protect the intricate dials and ensure clarity.
• Exotic leathers that add a touch of luxury and comfort.

Artisanal Craftsmanship

Every timepiece from Franck Muller in the UK is a testament to the brand’s commitment to elevated craftsmanship. Entirely manufactured in-house, each watch is hand-assembled by skilled and talented watchmakers to ensure the ultimate reliability and precision. Most models are produced in limited quantities, allowing for greater attention to detail and quality control. As such, all Franck Muller watches in London embody the brand’s ethos of quality and individuality.

Distinctive Design

When you are about to buy Franck Muller watches, you’ll instantly recognise them through distinctive design elements.

• Cintrée Curvex: The brand’s signature tonneau-shaped case, which offers a unique ergonomic fit and a daring visual statement.
• Bold Numerals: Oversized, stylised Arabic numerals often adorn the dials, adding a light and playful touch to complex movements.
• Innovative Dial Layouts: Creative and unconventional dial designs, such as the Crazy Hours, which challenge traditional watch aesthetics.
• Skeleton Movements: Giving a glimpse at the watch's inner world, open-worked bridges and plates create one-of-a-kind designs symbolising technological avant-garde.
• Outstanding Finishes and Decorations: Geneva stripes, spotting, sunray brushing, bevelling, mirror polishing, shot blasting, satin finishing, circular graining, and diamond polishing are the major techniques used to create versatile decorative finishes which are a part of the Franck Muller aesthetics.

Exclusivity

Unparalleled complications and unmatched exquisite designs meet in unique Franck Muller watch models coveted by collectors and connoisseurs. The brand further maintains its exclusivity through limited production runs and unique editions, catering to watch enthusiasts seeking something truly unique. More than that, when you buy Franck Muller, the company offers engraving options, allowing clients to create personalised timepieces.

Franck Muller Collections

Franck Muller for sale has gorgeous watch collections for gents and ladies, each encompassing multiple series of timepieces with distinct inspirations and key features behind them. In our Franck Muller watch shop in London, you can find both bestsellers and rarer masterpieces from different collections.

Cintrée Curvex

Introduced in 1992, this collection is a cornerstone of Franck Muller's ethos and aesthetics. Known for its distinctive barrel shape that revolutionised watch design by moving away from the traditional round case, it blends classical elegance with contemporary flair. Distinguished by large, bold numerals and intricate guilloché dials, these models come in classic tones like black, white, and silver, with occasional bold contrasts. If you are looking for a piece of timeless style that is good for formal events and business settings, Cintrée Curvex watches are a perfect choice.

Curvex CX

The Curvex CX is a modern reinterpretation of the iconic Cintrée Curvex, enhancing its design with contemporary elements. Retaining the well-recognisable curved contours and barrel shape, it incorporates a sleeker design, with sapphire crystal extending to the bracelet to make bold numerals more visible. Equipped with chronographs and automatic movements, Curvex CX watches combine more modern hues such as black, blue, and metallic tones. As such, having these watches for sale in the UK is great news for younger audiences and contemporary lifestyles.

Long Island

Inspired by the glamour of the 1920s, the Long Island collection captures the spirit and boldness of Art Deco's geometric shapes. Its rectangular case, elongated numerals, and artful dials paired with a noble colour scheme in black, white, gold, and silver will cater to the taste of vintage-style fans.

Master Square

Yet another tribute to Art Deco, this collection is characterised by perfectly symmetrical square cases, offering a minimalist yet sophisticated look. The square case, harmonious proportions, stylised Roman numerals, and monochromatic palettes with refined accents reflect Franck Muller’s ability to blend simplicity with elegance. Such well-balanced designs are good for everyday wear and formal occasions alike.

Round

Mixing radiance with modern twists, models from the Round collection embrace the class and charm of classical watchmaking and contemporary refinement. The round case, clear and simple dials, and refined aesthetics are common for all Franck Muller watches you can buy in London from this series. The line covers more simple mechanical movements and pieces with complications like tourbillons and perpetual calendars. Design, in turn, varies from classy to flashy with diamond decorations, making it fit for traditionalists with an eye for exquisite details.

Vanguard

Vanguard represents a modern and sporty evolution of Franck Muller’s design philosophy, characterised by dynamic lines and contemporary materials. The collection is extremely versatile, featuring models from classical elegant pieces to high-performing tourbillon watches with vibrant colour accents. Suitable for active lifestyles, Vanguard will suit younger audiences, sports enthusiasts, and trendsetters.

Special Collections

The Skafander series for gents is Franck Muller’s foray into diving watches, combining rugged functionality with the brand’s signature elegance. Gallet, Heart, and Infinity lines for ladies celebrate the brand’s roots in traditional watchmaking with classic dials and vintage-inspired numerals. Meanwhile, delicate designs, refined shapes, soft colours, romantic motifs, and diamond embellishments create beautiful feminine timepieces perfect for special occasions and events.

Pricing Overview: Franck Muller in London

If you are about to buy a Franck Muller watch in the United Kingdom, you’ll be impressed by the variety of shapes, forms, designs, colour schemes, and price options available. In our boutique in the UK, Franck Muller price tags start from 6,000 GBP for classic models and can exceed 50,000 GBP for the most exclusive and elaborate timepieces. Here is how Franck Muller for sale in London is segmented by price:

• Basic Premium Segment (6,000–12,000 GBP): Covers luxurious timepieces with high-quality craftsmanship at more affordable prices. Great examples are legendary models from Cintrée Curvex and Long Island collections. Featuring basic functionality with simple complications and timeless designs, they are ideal for daily wear, professional settings, and formal occasions.
• Medium Premium Segment (12,000 GBP–50,000 GBP): Embraces more complex mechanisms such as chronographs, dual time zones, and advanced complications like the Crazy Hours, along with more sophisticated and intricate designs, often incorporating bold colours and innovative dial layouts. Timepieces from the Vanguard series have all this and even more at mid-range prices.
• High Premium Segment (50,000 GBP and more): Is for those who value exclusivity and personalisation and want a status piece that screams out prestige, luxury, and individuality. Limited edition models and custom pieces from earlier and recent collections made from precious metals and decorated with diamonds and gems come at higher prices in the UK and are worth a collector’s choice. Complications-packed marvels from Aeternitas all fall within this category.

You can buy nearly any model from the wide Frank Muller list in our shop in London. Or visit the Watches of Mayfair website to buy online.

The Watchmaking Process

Dedicated to the creation of novelty wristwatches with a focus on the Haute Horlogerie standards and branded complications, Franck Muller applies a meticulous approach to the watchmaking process. All Franck Muller watches represented in our store in London are entirely produced in-house in Watchland, which is a property in the countryside of Genève owned by the company, with breathtaking scenery and views of Lake Leman. Here, a team of top-tier specialists create some of the world's most exquisite watches.

To ensure the quality and precision of watches offered for sale in the United Kingdom, Franck Muller not only manually assembles all its movements from scratch but also manufactures its dials and cases in its branded facility in Jura Arc. The brand boasts full-cycle in-house production ofevery step of the process, from conceptualisation and material selection to component fabrication, assembly, quality control, packaging, and delivery.