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Defy gravity by flying with the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton

The new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton - rare, impressive and remarkably accurate, meets the new tourbillon in town.

Grammy nominated artist BT (Brian Wayne Transeau) is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter with a 2003 song called The Force of Gravity (also featuring JC Chasez). Given that the new watch we're reviewing today, the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton, is all about defying gravity, it's only fitting that we start with loud lyrics.

"Remember the words we used to speak; the promises made became all apologies; the weight of the memory storm; you were still flying against gravity; gravity".

As far as the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton is concerned, “remembering how a traditional tourbillon works; The flywheel only compensates for gravity when in a vertical position; you'll still find a brand that fights gravity, gravity (with the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton).

A haute horlogerie marvel from a master of complications: the three-axis tourbillon differs from more traditional and common tourbillons in that it not only compensates for gravity in the vertical position, but also corrects for gravity in all positions.

Rare, impressive and damn accurate, meet the new tourbillon in town.

Franck Muller has made a name for himself in the watch industry with the Revolution Tourbillon watch. These timepieces often represent the pinnacle of contemporary watchmaking.

It's not just the Revolution collection; in fact, the brand is known for its extraordinary creativity and timeless wonderment of the horological world, evident in their products such as the Jumping Hours Tourbillon in 1986, the Minute Repeater in 1987 Flywheel, Inverted Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeater from 1989, Crazy Hours collection from 2003, Aeternitas™ Mega 4 or Giga Tourbillon from 2011. Despite the brand's youth, Franck Muller was no stranger to creating acclaimed haute horlogerie masterpieces, with more than 50 world premieres and patents to his name.

Going back to the Revolution 3 Skeleton, as the name suggests, we've seen other previous versions, but this is the first time this movement has been housed in a Vanguard case, giving it a distinctive sapphire dome on the front and back.

Revolution is a series of watches launched by Franck Muller in 2004. These include the Revolution 3 in 2009, the world's first three-axis tourbillon. The journey begins with the Cintrée Curvex collection, which includes the Revolution 1, Revolution 2, Revolution 3 and Evolution 3-1 – to which the brand added a perpetual calendar – before placing this remarkable horological feat in a Vanguard collection box and skeletonizing the movement . It's now available in two colors, red and blue.

Specification
The reference model V 50 REV 3 SQT NR BR (ER) designed and built in-house features a 34.30mm (W) x 40.30mm (L) x 9.65mm (H) manual-winding movement, composed of 359 components, 36 rubies and Beats at a low frequency of 2.5 Hz (18'000 A/h), impressive drums please, 10-day power reserve. The skeletonized movement is impressive, with micro-arcs and hand-chamfers on the main plate and tourbillon cage, and circular graining on the wheels. Franck Muller also added color to the movement with the red anodizing of the tourbillon cage and indicators.

The new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton is equipped with a movement very similar to its Revolution 3 predecessor. Reference 9800 T REV 3 is equipped with a larger movement: 34.73 mm (W) x 41.40 mm (L) x 16.60 mm (H) ). It is also a hand-wound movement and consists of (fewer) 315 components , but beats at the same low frequency of 2.5Hz (18'000 A/h) and has the same 10-day power reserve. In terms of decoration, it also varies, with hand-carved Art Deco motifs, as well as Côtes de Genève, circular grain and hand-chamfered edges.

The Revolution 3 is housed in 950 platinum or 18 karat gold, while the movement of the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton is housed in the typical barrel-shaped Vanguard case measuring 46 mm (W) x 55.9 mm (L) x 13.7 mm (H). The grade 2 titanium back PVD treated hand-brushed case features a sapphire crystal, two domes on the front and rear and red inserts on the sides of the case. The case provides the watch with a water resistance of 30 meters.

Dial showing hour and minute functions at 12 o'clock, power reserve indicator above hand and minute hands at 12 o'clock, tri-axis tourbillon at 6 o'clock, carriage progress indicator clock at 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock. The latter show the rotation of the first cage in 1 min and the second cage in 8 min, respectively. The rotation of the third cage is shown after 1 h.

The way of this extraordinary three-axis tourbillon world is to slowly rotate through the one-hour, eight-minute and sixty-second periods of its respective three frames. Power flows from the gear train through all three carriers, activating the balance five times per second.

Look, there's a lot going on here, it's a busy dial, it's obvious, there's no need to beat around the bush. Plus, it's a skeleton dial. Judicious use of red helps greatly improve the legibility of this timepiece. There's no special cryptographic reasoning behind it, it's our beloved timepiece. That said, this isn't a traditional timepiece, like many of the timepieces we've reviewed in the past, especially from Hublot, it's more of a wrist art, or rather a kinetic sculpture.

So even though the dial doesn't offer the traditional clean, clutter-free look, it draws the eye to the execution and movement of the tri-axis tourbillon and the various elements of red, providing a strap-like visual overload transformer to your wrist . The timepiece, despite its complexity, stylishly showcases openworked black bridges and red aluminum indicators, allowing the wearer to observe the three-axis tourbillon in all its mechanical beauty.

The watch is paired with a hand-stitched red Alcantara® strap and a hand-finished grade 2 titanium folding clasp. The strap is not only ergonomic as it follows the shape of the wrist, but also perfectly complements the movement and the red accents on the Vanguard case.

The Cintrée Curvex Revolution 1 opened up a whole new way for the world to experience a tourbillon. Pressing the button on the left side of the watch's case, the tourbillon cage rises until it is just a few microns below the upper sapphire crystal. If you look at it from the side, you will find that the balance wheel is completely higher than the dial. The series has grown over the years and how.

While the Cintrée Curvex version has a more formal tone, the new Franck Muller Vanguard™ Revolution 3 Skeleton is sportier and fuller; it's next-level watchmaking and, as some sites say, billionaire the perfect toy. For those who like to know the mechanism of tourbillon in advance, this watch is just right.