Franck Muller’s Vanguard Curvex is the perfect canvas for artistic expression. And the watchmaker’s 2025 WPHH Novelty, the Vanguard Curvex Cut Flower, shows what happens when luxury is allowed to permeate that expression. Perfect gemstones form a lattice of flowers across the openwork dial, each featuring 73 facets made possible by the specialised Curvex Cut Diamond technique. The result is a brilliant and daring timepiece, something we’ve come to expect from the name Franck Muller.

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