Franck Muller Crazy Hours jumping-hour module
ProbableThe base is an ETA 2892, typically in a high grade, with the Crazy Hours works mounted as a module above it. Franck Muller's house practice across the range is consistent and worth knowing: an ETA base, a platinum rotor, selected components upgraded, an in-house complication module, the Franck Muller name engraved and a Franck Muller reference number applied. So an FM caliber number is an FM DESIGNATION over an outside base — the same convention this catalog records for Hublot's HUB numbers and Hamilton's H-series — and an examiner expecting in-house architecture behind one will report a correct watch as wrong. What still matters most at the point of examination is what the mechanism DOES, because that is what a copy omits: at the hour the hand must jump instantaneously across the dial to the correct numeral, which is not the physically adjacent one.
Specifications
- Movement manufacturer
- Franck Muller
- Base caliber
- ETA 2892
- Production
- 2003–present
- Winding
- automatic
- Complications
- Jumping hours · Non-sequential hour indication
Architecture
A high-grade ETA 2892 automatic carrying a Franck Muller complication plate: a jumping-hour mechanism programmed to advance the hour hand to a non-sequential position on the dial, so that a scrambled numeral layout still indicates the correct hour.
Authentication notes
- MovementProbable
The jump is the test and it is conclusive
Wait for the hour. A genuine Crazy Hours jumps the hour hand across the dial in an instant to the numeral representing the true next hour. A counterfeit built on an ordinary movement sweeps the hand continuously to the physically adjacent numeral, which then indicates the wrong time — the scrambled dial only works if the mechanism is there. Few checks in this catalog are this decisive for this little effort.
References using this caliber
- Franck Muller Crazy HoursFactory
Crazy Hours · Whole production
Provenance of this record
Sources & Evidence
Franck Muller — collection and complication specifications
Franck Muller Watchland SA
- Accessed
- 2026-08-19
Cited for
Research on Franck Muller counterfeits: case curvature, numerals and complication claims
Authentication services, dealers and collector communities
- Accessed
- 2026-08-19
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