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 A gifted by exceptional technical talent in
the history of exclusive watchmaking, Franck Muller, is known throughout the
world as the Master of Complications. The Swiss virtuoso's brand is
distinguished for its outstanding designs, prototypes, exclusivities and added
value features in terms of social status and customer experience that made it
truly unique and the users to feel special.
A rare profile behind-the-scene:
The noted Muller was born in
Switzerland in 1958 and enrolled his name in Watch making School when he was
just 15 year-old-boy. After taking a four year remarkable studies started in
1981 from the famous Geneva School of Watch making (Ecole d'Horlogerie de
Genève), Muller wanted to create his own workshop instead of joining a brand or
a group of watchmakers.
Muller started his creative career
designing a new collection of Tourbillion wristwatch in 1983 while a very few
watchmakers were capable of creating such complicated timepieces at that time.
Having the exquisite collections from Franck Muller, private clients were
coming continuously to his workshop and thus his business started growing.
The world has never seen before such a
complicated timepieces Muller manufactured like the Grande and Petite Sonnerie,
Minute Repeater for the hours, quarters and minutes, a Perpetual Calendar
programmed to the year 2100 with date, day of the week, month and monthly
retrograde equation, leap-year cycle, 24-hour moon phase indicator, indicator
of the internal temperature of the mechanism.
Within a few years, Muller became a unique
manufacturer in creation of finest timepieces applying one-off knowledge and
creative brains under his own brand.
In
1992, Franck Muller holding the watchmaker name himself established his own
company in Genthod, (surrounded by a vineyard-covered hill and Lake Geneva)
outside of Geneva, Switzerland added a real milestone in his life.
The famous name for the world premiers,
featuring something special, exclusive and prestigious complications that has
never seen before in the watch making industry, Muller unveils it in each year
since 1986, to illustrate, a Tourbillon with jumping hours (1986), a Tourbillon
with Minute Repeater (1987), an inverted Tourbillon with Minute Repeater and
Perpetual Calendar (1989). Subsequently, in the 1993 premiere, the creative
maker blended many complications within a single timepiece - split-seconds
chronograph, minute repeater, perpetual calendar, and internal temperature
indicator.
Moreover, Muller's timepieces are found in
various designs and the price range is different too while his ultra
complicated watches have became so popular, especially, in Europe and the
United states at the same time.
Where Collection speaks:
To catch the eyes of the clients by the
striking timepiece's styles, designs and the complicated mechanisms is the main
goal for Muller's productions included Chronograph, Color Dreams, Tourbillon,
Conquistador Cortez King, Curvex Tonneau, Long Island, (Grande Date and Master
Banker) Casablanca etc.
The Franck Muller timepieces merged the
sophistication and detail of antique pieces with modern style - Aeternitas,
Revolution 2, (world's first watch to have both vertical and horizontal
tourbillion) Revolution 3, Crazy Hours, Endurance, Master Banker, Curvex Minute
Repeater Tourbillon and Colour Dreams stand for a timeless sense of class,
however, the designs have found a niche in the markets today.
One of the Muller's latest collections
entitled ‘Mystery' includes two types of models - Mystery and Double Mystery
where the first one shows only hours and the latter displays hours and minutes.
The double Mystery's models are available in blue, black and white, brown and
grey color themes. This newest is also available with a bracelet fully set with
diamonds that invented and patented the mechanism by Franck Muller.
As part of manufacturing nice watches,
Muller presents also to its clients a number of stylish pieces under the
‘Cintree Curvex collections' included Tourbillon Imperiale Chrono, Repeater
Tourbillon, Master Imperial Tourbillon, Tourbillon Imperiale Grave, Chronograph
Perpetual Calendar Bi-Retrograde, Perpetual Calendar, Chronograph Perpetual
Calendar, Grande et Petite Sonnerie, Master Calendar Moonphase, Big Ben GMT
etc.
What makes Muller so special:
Franck Muller has received a solid
reputation for his own line of watch-making over the last 15 years whereas the
watch brand is also celebrated as its collections are worn by many celebrities,
namely, Demi Moore, American actress, Robin Williams, Grammy Award-winning
American actor and comedian, Elton John, English rock singer, composer and
pianist.
A survey result on the ultra-luxury watches
segment identified Franck Muller as the Most Prestigious Watch Brand in the
United States conducted in 2006 by the Luxury Institute of New York, a uniquely
independent and objective research organization.
Moreover, In October 2002, Muller Geneve
has been granted the first prize, men's category, of the Geneve Watch Making
Grand Prix that proved the watchmaker's exceptional talent.
Md. Asraful Alam
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