Franck Muller Adds Damascus Cases to Vanguard

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

New successful 2023, Franck Muller’s new Damascus Steel collection celebrates the creation of metallurgy arsenic it extends its best-selling Vanguard postulation with sporty, skeletal, and dressy editions, each utilizing Damascus alloy cases.

One of 2 models successful the caller Franck Muller Vanguard Damascus Steel Dial collection.

Originating successful the Near East with alloy apt imported from India, extra-strong Damascus steel features a wood-grain-style pattern. Artisans successful Japan are possibly the best-known Damascus artisans for their Damascus enactment connected Katanas, the emblematic swords of the Samurai warriors.

The blackened illustration from the caller Franck Muller Vanguard Damascus Steel Racing collection.

Franck Muller creates its ain benignant of Damascus alloy made utilizing 2 types of non-magnetic stainless alloy (which allows a ticker question to function). Its atom plan is people revealed erstwhile immersed successful an acerb bath, and each portion offers a unsocial pattern.

The caller Franck Muller Vanguard Damascus Steel Skeleton.

Within the barrel-shaped Vanguard collection, each models measurement either 45mm oregon 46mm across. Within each style, Franck Muller offers a exemplary with blackened surfaces and a lighter, earthy Damascus-grain surface, each framing a Franck Muller manual oregon automatic movement. On each watches, adjacent the buckle is made of Damascus steel.

The three-hand with day Vanguard Damascus Steel Dial models get with a grosgrain leather strap ($13,100). The Vanguard Damascus Steel Racing bid exposes its question with slanted, open-work markers and an interior seconds dial ($24,200).

The darker mentation of the Vanguard Damascus Steel Skeleton.

The astir melodramatic bid here, the Vanguard Damascus Steel Skeleton ($44,200), echoes the existing, modern Vanguard Skeleton series, but with Damascus bridgework that matches the lawsuit astir it. Inside you’ll find a Franck Muller manual-wind question with seven-day powerfulness reserve.