Franck Muller is a

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manufacturer named after its founder. The company's estimated total sales (in 2010/2011) were 20000 pkr in watches with an average unit price of 679000 pkr Franck Muller's watches are worn by various peoples, among them

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Biography

The founder and former

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of the brand, Franck Muller, was born in 1958. He spent his childhood in

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with his Italian mother and Swiss-born father. At 15, he enrolled in a watchmaking school. In the early 1980s, he graduated from the Watchmaking School of Geneva (). Afterwards, he began repairing top-quality pocket

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es. Close to an independent watchmaker by the name of Svend Andersen, Franck Muller became responsible for handling watches from the collection of

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. Most of the clientele were private individuals and museums. While he was working with complicated timepieces, he became passionate about their mechanisms and began to think of building his own workshop. Soon after, in 1984, Franck Muller designed his own

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. In the 1980s, few watchmakers were capable of creating such complicated timepieces, among them

and

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. The private clients of Franck Muller continued to come for new timepieces, and thus his business started growing. The House of Franck Muller opened in 1991, and his timepieces began to gain popularity in

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. Today, his factory, which is also the headquarters of Franck Muller, produces a limited number of watches for private clientele. Franck Muller's collections include a variety of designs and price ranges. Now the company has five sites (

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) and 570 official retailers.

World premieres

Franck Muller Boutique in Madrid, Spain, 200px Franck Muller is also known for its "World Premiers". Each year, the manufacturer launches at least one new line of timepieces, featuring new and exclusive items. The first such world premiere was launched in 1993. The watches had a split seconds

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, a

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, and a

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. In addition, the watches included an indicator showing the internal temperature.

Notable products

The brand of watches carries the slogan "Master of Complications". Franck Muller

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s are famous for their fusion of "modern" style, mostly inspired by American watches from the thirties, like "Elgin tonneau", and traditional Swiss watch manufacturing. Notable timepieces include ''Revolution2'', ''Revolution3'', ''Crazy Hours'', and ''Colour Dreams''. Further examples of Franck Muller's watches include the ''Endurance'', which is a simple chronograph, the ''Master Banker'', which is a tonneau-shaped watch capable of multiple time zone indication, and the ''Curvex Minute Repeater Tourbillon'', whose production is limited to 25 pieces. * Aeternitas * Casablanca * Color Dreams * Conquistador * Crazy Hours * Curvex * Long Island * Master Banker * Revolution2 * Revolution3 * Vanguard * Encrypto, a watch that also works as cryptowallet.

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