Franck Muller Vanguard Skeleton ‘Color Dream’

Dubai-based entrepreneur Karim Haddad is wearing a 44 mm Franck Muller Vanguard Skeleton ‘Color Dream’ in titanium featuring a 44 mm tonneau-shaped case and a skeleton “rainbow” dial on an alligator leather strap. The manual winding movement consists of 175 parts, and when fully wounded, the timepiece offers remarkable 168 hours of power reserve.

Overall Watch Review

Franck Muller, a craftsman, and Vartan Sirmakes, an entrepreneur, established the Franck Muller timepiece company in Geneva in 1991. Franck Muller, who was born somewhat late, has accomplished several illustrious achievements. The firm has also produced several works of art for men in addition to its contributions to women.

The Swiss luxury watchmaker Franck Muller recently introduced the Vanguard Skeleton Color Dreams series. He claims that the “colorful, vibrant, and joyful” line will provide brightness to its owners’ wrists. The series features three distinct variations of eight well-known Franck Muller Color Dreams hues.

The anodized aluminum used in the satin bridges allows for a wide range of hues. They were created to draw attention to the watch’s powerful structure. The Vanguard Skeleton Colour Dreams’ well-balanced design exemplifies the Franck Muller company’s love of fine craftsmanship and attention to detail.

The Sapphire Color Dreams makes creative use of the design of the hand-wound, skeletonized caliber FM 1740-VS. It beats at 2.5 Hz and has a sizable 7-day power reserve to display the bright color scheme on display. Red, purple, orange, and 2 distinct tones of blue have been represented on the movement’s coated metal bridges. Additionally, the chapter ring with the mainspring barrel for the operating second’s clock is shown in green and yellow, respectively.

In order to improve legibility in poor lighting, the hour, minute, as well as seconds indexes are skeletonized and painted orange, purple, and green, respectively. Its use of color is wonderfully carried over from the movement towards the white outer ring. This serves as the ideal backdrop for the colored double-digit characters and the inscriptions “Vanguard” with “Seven days” placed at 12 and 6 o’clock.

The casing on this timepiece has been made of sapphire, allowing the wearer to completely appreciate the combination of hues from the piece’s surface. Sapphire provides unmatched clarity and excellent scratch resistance. Despite the case’s enormous 44mm wide, the 53mm lug-to-lug gap is kept to a minimum by the Tonneau design, making it comfortable to wear on the wrist. The crown at position three has been coated in blue and yellow to continue the watch’s concept of brightness and color.

With black contrasting stitching, the brand-new Franck Muller Vanguard Skeleton Sapphire Color Dreams is paired with a vibrant alligator strap. On the other hand, only 30 meters of water cannot penetrate the casing.

Overall, there is no Franck Mueller Vanguard line version with any of these distinctive color styles. The Grande Date, Gravitational forces, as well as other Skeleton variants from the company, are actually most similar in concept to the Sapphire Skeleton. However, the sapphire case elevates this unique model to an entirely new level.

Price market: $30,000.00

Ref. V45 S6 SQT COL DRM BC

Photo: Karim Haddad