Episode Details

Season 2, Episode 12: Franck Muller

THE MASTER AND THE MARGINS: FRANCK MULLER, THE SHAPE OF AMBITION, AND THE WATCH THEROOM LOVES TO HATE

DESCRIPTION

A prodigy. A partnership. A courtroom feud with a counterfeiting uncle and fifteen hundred mystery Russian movements. A two-point-seven-million-dollar watch with thirty-six complications. And a sporty tonneau that quietly became the brand’s comeback. This is the full Franck Muller story, the admiration and the disdain held in one hand, with a long, fun look at the engineering of the Vanguard. I am Watchovski.

KEYWORDS

Franck Muller, Vartan Sirmakes, Cintrée Curvex, tonneau, Master of Complications, front-visible tourbillon, Casablanca, Long Island, Conquistador, Master Banker, Color Dreams, Crazy Hours, jumping hour, Aeternitas Mega 4, Pierre-Michel Golay, Westminster carillon, grande sonnerie, petite sonnerie, perpetual calendar, Watchland, Genthod, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Geneva Watchmaking School, Svend Andersen, Patek Philippe restoration, quartz crisis, Poljot movements, Jean-Claude Biver, Richard Mille, Vanguard, Vanguard Gravity, elliptical tourbillon, Aero Revolution, Vanguard Yachting, Vanguard Mariner, Vanguard Casablanca, glass fiber composite, gray market, counterfeits, super clone, haute horlogerie, independent watchmaking, collector culture, Watchovski, What’s on Your Riste