Franck Muller's WPHH Novelties 2021 - GRAND CENTRAL CINTREE CURVEX™

The Grand Central is a spectacular new collection, where the Tourbillon is in the spotlight, placed at the center of the timepiece.

One of the complexities of the collection, lies in the fact that we had to totally rethink the watch in order to move the Tourbillon from its original position at 6 o’clock to the center of the watch. In addition to this attractive and surprising decentering, Franck Muller designers and watchmakers had to find an innovative system to display the time in the center of the watch. Thus, they found an innovative way to place the hour and second hands around the Tourbillon cage, highlighting the beauty of the piece.

Extremely rare for a Franck Muller Tourbillon collection, the watch holds a self-winding movement, thanks to an eccentric micro rotor, offering 4 days of power reserve.
This beautiful central Tourbillon is housed in a redesigned Cintrée Curvex case where the sapphire crystal extends all the way to the bracelet, giving much greater visibility to the dial. Furthermore, the bezel which is separate from the case, allows beautiful two-tone treatments.

Regarding the case, it has been redesigned so that the sapphire crystal goes all the way to the bracelet. The bezel which is separate from the case, allowing two-tone treatments. This design totally changes the aspect of the original Cintrée Curvex™ and fully highlights the beautiful curves of the watch. It also gives full visibility to the dial by limiting the amount of material used on the sides which is technically very difficult to achieve and giving the case a new modern line of life.

The open back allows to admire the pure traditional decorations as the Côte de Genève.

GRAND CENTRAL

The Grand Central is an outstanding new collection, where the Tourbillon is in the spotlight, placed at the center of the timepiece. This beautiful central Tourbillon is housed in a redesigned Franck Muller Cintrée Curvex case.

Reference

- CX 40 T CTR 5N AC

Case

- 18k rose gold case and stainless steel internal bezel

- Width: 58.70 mm x Length: 40.16 mm x Thickness: 7.73 mm

- Sapphire crystal

- Water resistant up to 50 meters

- Stamped guilloché

Dial

- 20 layers of translucent lacquer

- Hand applied Arabic numerals

Functions

- Hours, Minutes and Seconds on the Central Tourbillon

Movement

- FM CX 40T-CTR Self-winding mechanical movement with bidirectional rotor system

- Power reserve of 4 days

- 313 components

- 52 jewels

- Width: 35.85 mm, Length: 43.95 mm, Thickness: 12.85 mm

- Balance wheel frequency set at 18'000 alternations per hour

Movement decoration

- Côte de Genève on bridges

- Sunray Brushing on the rotor and barrel cover

- Spotting on the bottom plate

- Chamfering on the bridges and rotor board

- Rhodium plating and 24k gold finish on textual engravings

Bracelet

- Hand sewn alligator strap

Buckle

- 18k rose gold folding buckle

- Hand polished