From audacious complications to artistic collaborations, Franck Muller continues to challenge conventional notions of what a watch should be.
Across the Swiss maison’s latest creations, haute horlogerie takes on myriad forms – from kinetic mechanical theatre and sculptural architecture to pop culture-inspired whimsy, retro elegance and dazzling displays of luxury craftsmanship.
Together, they reveal a watchmaker unafraid to make timekeeping as expressive as it is technically accomplished.
Vanguard Crazy Hours Jisbar Lady
Time becomes an artistic canvas in this collaboration with French pop-street artist Jisbar.
A feminine extension of 2025’s original, it retains the playful eccentricity of Crazy Hours – one of Franck Muller’s most emblematic and technically unique complications where jumping hands leap around seemingly random numerals to tell the correct time.
Bringing this visual ballet to life is a 25-layer lacquer dial featuring 12 stylised compositions from the artist’s vibrant universe.
The tonneau case measures 32mm x 42.3mm x 9.9mm and is water-resistant up to 30m.
Driving the watch is the automatic MVT 2800-CHRS movement, offering a 42-hour power reserve.
Limited to 25 rose gold and 50 steel pieces, it is as much a wearable artwork as a mechanical masterpiece.
Vanguard Kelly Dabbah
Another collaboration, this time with Swiss-born multidisciplinary collage artist Kelly Dabbah, sees the iconic Vanguard collection embrace a maximalist aesthetic.
Vivid elements and unconventional materials define the new models, with the titular one featuring a rose gold case hand-set with 308 brilliant-cut diamonds (3.77 carats).
The Candy Mint is equally feminine with its mint green and baby pink fibreglass case.
Both feature dreamy collage dials anchored by the commanding gaze of a tiger.
The men’s Electric Feel is more restrained with collages on the numerals instead. Carbon detailing, electric blue accents and an aluminium alloy case reinforce its technical character.
The collages are crafted with a sublimation technique that permanently embeds high-definition imagery beneath the lacquer.
The ladies’ model features 32mm x 42.3mm x 9.9mm cases, powered by the MVT 1748 automatic movement with 38-hour power reserve.
The men’s piece, measuring 42.5mm x 52.7mm x 12.6mm, is driven by the MVT 2356-SCDT automatic movement with 42-hour power reserve.
Vanguard Aero Revolution 3 Skeleton
The manufacture pushes its technical boundaries with this three-dimensional, transparent masterpiece centred on its iconic, tri-axial tourbillon.
Three concentric cages rotate on different axes, completing their respective revolutions in 60 seconds, eight minutes and one hour to continually alter the balance wheel’s position against gravity, thus enhancing chronometric precision and delivering an exceptional 10-day power reserve.
The avant garde mechanism is housed within a fully openworked tonneau case − available in 18K rose gold, blackened titanium or stainless steel − measuring 43.4mm x 52.1mm x 22.4mm.
Four open sides allow unobstructed views of the new in-house MVT FM 2031-VS manual winding movement, developed over two years and assembled from 280 components.
A sapphire caseback further highlights the magnificent inner workings, which layered construction creates a striking sense of depth.
Round Triple Mystery
Time comes full circle with the Round Triple Mystery, where three independent rotating discs redefine the passage of hours, minutes and seconds.
The new collection − unveiled at the World Presentation of Haute Horlogerie 2026 − builds on an epiphany brand co-founder Franck Muller experienced during a business trip.
He found that certain cultures had a more fluid and unbound perception of time and sought to capture that idea in a timepiece.
This led to the creation of the first Mystery watch around the turn of the millennium and the Double Mystery several years later, with one and two discs respectively.
The Triple Mystery is the culmination of that evolution, with a trio of discs floating freely, untethered by traditional hands. Triangle-cut diamonds serve as indicators.
Powering the unusual display is the MVD 2800-TMY automatic movement, which skeletonised central plate keeps everything lightweight and energy-efficient.
The result is a 39mm timepiece with a 42-hour power reserve, offered in rose or white gold.
Expressions include the Round Triple Mystery Invisible with 145 hand-set, brilliant-cut diamonds (11.64 carats) and the Round Triple Mystery Skeleton with openworked architecture.
Most vibrant of all is the Round Triple Mystery Rainbow. Its meticulous orchestration of 360 sapphires, rubies, amethysts and tsavorites (6.12 carats) across the case and dial reveals a circular gradient of colour when the time is 10:10.
Master Jumper Skeleton
Time does not simply pass on this avant-garde expression of mechanical mastery – it literally jumps.
Conventional hands are replaced with five discs that synchronously leap to display the hours, minutes and date through three equidistant apertures.
The jumping hour disc at the top of the dial displays the hours at 12 o’clock, while two central discs converge to display the minutes in a middle window.
Completing the trio is the jumping date disc with the date window at 6 o’clock.
The watch’s heart is the manual winding, in-house MVT FM-3100, which double-barrel system ingeniously separates energy demands.
One barrel powers the movement and date, while the other drives the hour and minute discs, keeping jumps precise throughout the 30-hour power reserve.
The openworked architecture puts everything on full display, while an inner sapphire crystal adds depth to the three-dimensional construction.
The Master Jumper Skeleton is available in Long Island Evolution or Curvex CV models.
The former features a black PVD-treated titanium case, rose gold bezel and measures 35.3mm x 48.1mm x 12.5mm, while the latter comes in rose gold with dimensions of 38.2mm x 55.4mm x 10.8mm.
Curvex CX Grand Central
Tourbillon Baguette
Franck Muller puts the tourbillon centre stage, quite literally, in this exquisite timepiece.
It moved the complication from the traditional 6 o’clock position to the very heart of the watch.
This unusual layout places the hour and minute hands around the tourbillon cage, while the bridge doubles as the seconds indicator, creating a display that radiates from the centre.
Beneath the spectacle is the in-house MVT FM CX 36T-CTR, a 313-component automatic movement with an eccentric micro rotor and impressive four-day power reserve.
The watch is no less dramatic visually, with its 36mm x 53.1mm x 13.4mm rose gold case, dial and crown completely paved with 26.12 carats of baguette-cut diamonds.
The rose gold bracelet is handset with a further 24.57 carats of diamonds.
The invisible setting method conceals the metal frame work, resulting in uninterrupted surfaces of light that create a sense of motion no matter what direction it is viewed from.
Cintree Curvex Hello Kitty
Haute horlogerie gains a playful new personality in an exclusive collaboration with one of pop culture’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty.
The result is a whimsical yet sophisticated watch that marries Franck Muller’s sculptural tonneau silhouette with the kawaii aesthetic of the beloved feline.
Red, soft pink and sakura-inspired tones as well as kimono-inspired motifs lend the collection a distinctly Japanese character, while carefully printed dial details bring Hello Kitty’s world to life.
The artwork’s creation is a painstaking process, requiring around 10 successive transfer plates, each followed by approximately 30 minutes of drying to build up fine details with precision and depth.
Beneath the playful exterior, the stainless steel 29.1mm x 39mm x 8.6mm Cintree Curvex case retains its signature flowing curves and polished finish.
The MVD 1321 - QZ movement powers this charming piece of polished timekeeping.
Cintree Curvex Gatsby
The Roaring Twenties makes a stylish return in this watch inspired by Art Deco elegance.
Evoking the prestige of 1920s rowing clubs and riverside leisure, its defining feature is a set of graphic numerals which bold geometry reflects the typography of the period.
The familiar Cintree Curvex silhouette provides a sculptural foundation, with flowing tonneau curves crafted from either 18K rose gold or stainless steel.
For an added dose of glamour, the diamond-set version is adorned with 64 brilliant-cut diamonds totalling 1.04 carats, each painstakingly handset.
The case measures 29mm x 39mm x 7.2mm and houses the MVD 1748 automatic movement, offering 38 hours of power reserve.
An open caseback offers a glimpse of the inner workings, completing a design that balances vintage sophistication with Franck Muller’s signature contemporary style.
A Franck Muller watchmaker assembling the discs on the Master Jumper Skeleton.
Vanguard Aero Revolution 3 Skeleton showcases Franck Muller’s iconic tri-axial tourbillon.
The Vanguard Crazy Hours Jisbar Lady, with seemingly random numerals and hands that leap to tell the correct time.
The Round Triple Mystery Rainbow’s rotating discs are set with gemstones that create a perfect, circular gradient of colour when the time is 10:10.
The titular Vanguard Kelly Dabbah is handset with diamonds and features a collage dial anchored by the gaze of a tiger.
The avant garde Master Jumper Skeleton has five discs that synchronously leap to display the hours, minutes and date.
Another version of Cintree Curvex Hello Kitty. — Photos: Franck Muller
The complex rotating discs of the Master Jumper Skeleton.
The Cintree Curvex Hello Kitty is one of pop culture’s most recognisable characters, seen here in a kimono.
Curvex CX Grand Central Tourbillon Baguette is completely paved with diamonds and places the complication at the very core of the watch.
Art Deco aesthetics are central to the Cintree Curvex Gatsby.
