Just found this video of the Franck Muller Crazy Hours watch in action. This is the first time I’ve seen this complication — it’s basically a cute parlor trick using gears — but I finally understand what all the fuss with this watch was. Even if you don’t care about watches, it’s cool to see something different in the horology scene.
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I bought a Franck Muller after I saw my sister’s watch. I was fascinated the way the hour hand jumped. And it makes a great conversation piece when people try to figure out the time!
Yup. That is definitely neat. I’ve got two replicas. One that is identical to a Franck Muller and one branded as another company. I simply refuse to pay tens of thousands of dollars for something that can be easily duplicated by any watch maker. It may be blasphemy to say so, but there isn’t anything that special about a watch that would cause me to want to pay that much money for one. I’ll pay three or four hundred dollars for one, but that is the limit. When I can buy an exact copy (exact in all the ways that matter) for $70, then why would I pay $30,000 for the same thing just to have real gold? Ridiculous…
Anyway, the movement is amazing and very unique. I can’t believe more watch makers aren’t doing something with this. I bought a Goofy watch twenty years ago and got so used to reading time backwards that it was hard to go back to a regular watch. This one can do the same thing to you. We don’t really look at the numbers when we tell time anyway. We just look at the hand positions and tell from there. This makes you rewire your brain to see the time differently. It is always good to break trends in your brain. :)