Celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Snake with Franck Muller’s regal and artisanal Silhouette CX Snake
What do you desire most for 2025? Bountiful wealth? Profound wisdom? Quiet and calm? If one (or all) of the above is on your wish list, then you can do no better than channel the virtues of this lunar year’s zodiac animal.
As the sixth sign in the Chinese zodiac, the snake symbolises intuition, calmness, and adaptability—qualities essential for navigating a successful and prosperous year ahead. And who better to commemorate these virtues than Franck Muller, the Swiss independent watchmaking house, with a timepiece that promises not only elegance but also a nod to fortuitous beginnings?
An Asia Pacific exclusive edition, the Silhouette CX Snake is limited to just 28 pieces. Emblematic, artisanal, and seductive, the watch showcases Franck Muller’s savoir-faire in horological design, ornamentation, and mechanical crehttps://www.cortinawatch.com/en/franck-muller/limited-edition/cx-30-sc-at-silhouette-snake-cd-em-5n-5n/ativity in one charming package.
For starters, the Silhouette CX Snake’s 18k polished rose gold case flaunts a captivating new profile that reimagines Franck Muller’s iconic Cintrée Curvex shape. Although it bears a similarly sensuous tonneau-inspired form, the Silhouette CX Snake introduces a touch of asymmetry and fluidity, expressed with softness and curves inspired by the movement of its namesake animal.
Crafting this artfully contoured case is no small feat. Traditional methods fall short when it comes to the complex forms of both the case and sapphire glass. For instance, the unique spherical sapphire crystal is meticulously shaped using advanced diamond grinding and CNC machining techniques. Each component is then painstakingly handcrafted, assembled, and inspected to ensure it meets Franck Muller’s uncompromising standards for aesthetic beauty, water resistance, and functionality.
The asymmetry of the case extends to the watch’s mesmerising dial, also crafted with 3D CNC machining. Enhanced by elegantly designed numerals, the dial serves as the perfect canvas for the Silhouette CX Snake’s pièce de résistance: a hypnotic snake motif that appears to coil around the surface.
Set against a sunray-brushed guilloché dial, the snake’s form is brought to life by a dazzling carpet of deep green emeralds. The precious stones, which come in a variety of sizes, are festooned using the snow-setting technique. Glittering with a rich lushness, they express the hypnotic and sensual movement of the animal. Paired with a green calf leather strap embossed with a snakeskin texture, the Silhouette CX Snake wraps around your wrist with supreme comfort and luxury.
Bolstering the watch’s symbolic ornamentation, Franck Muller has endowed the Silhouette CX Snake with its in-house automatic MVT FM 2038 movement with 40-hour power reserve. Finished to the highest standards with Côtes de Genève decoration on the bridges and the rotor, perlage on the mainplate, and diamond polishing on the sinks and bridge bevels, among others, the movement guarantees uncompromising beauty alongside high-performance and longevity—elements that you can also add to an abundant Year of the Snake.
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