Curve Is The Answer

From magnificent complications to cute dragons, Franck Muller's Cintrée Curvex collection proves to be an expansive canvas for inspiration.

- Alvin Wong

As much as Franck Muller is fond of reminding us that it is a master of complications in the realm of fine watchmaking, it is perhaps not wrong, too, to call it a master of reinvention. Case in point: the Cintrée Curvex watch. Although tonneau-shaped watches have existed since the early 1900s, the 33-year-old independent brand took the distinctive elongated and cushion-inspired profile, reconfigured it, and made it entirely its own with the Cintrée Curvex collection.

Cintrée Curvex is French for 'arched in a curve' and Franck Muller ensured that the three-dimensional and curvaceous watch collection lives up to the name. Sensuality is the key design objective, with the Cintrée Curvex case and sapphire crystal sculpted in a way that is visibly curved from every angle.