The Ulysse Nardin Freak is having a moment, having received long- overdue recognition from the GPHG. The true significance of this momentous timepiece is both in the past and the future...
The Ulysse Nardin Freak is having a moment, having received long- overdue recognition from the GPHG. The true significance of this momentous timepiece is both in the past and the future…“I just love the Freak One. It’s just an amazing watch. It’s a status watch. It’s a killer watch,” enthuses George
Here was a watch with no crown – the display is adjusted using the bezel, the watch wound using the casebook. More impressive still, here was a watch without a dial or hands, utilising the movement itself to display the time and, in turn, proposing that the movement could find visual expression as a kind of kinetic art. Here was one that also took a new approach to materials, being the first watch with a silicium escapement.
“ deserves its current reputation for initiating the era of ‘modern’ watchmaking,” argues Le Rolland. “This era shifted the focus away from a classical, albeit high-end, approach to watchmaking to one that prioritized creating something entirely different and innovative. It inspired other watchmaking brands and brought a twist to haute horlogerie.”
Indeed, these and other pioneering watches might be too readily appreciated now as primarily being aesthetic leaps forward. And, as notes Maximillian Busser, Grand Prix of Horlogerie de Geneve jury member and founder of MB&F – a brand that also benefited from the path paved by the Freak – the various iterations of the Freak have managed to be unconventional while also being lightweight, compact and relatively streamlined.
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