Franck muller Announces New Proprietary Silicon Anchor Replica

Creating a proprietary is perhaps the ultimate challenge for all watchmakers, regardless of whether we are speaking about a craftsman working alone or about an entire company producing thousands or hundreds of thousands of watches. The Replica is the arrangement of components responsible for transferring the energy coming from the mainspring barrel through the going train (the series of wheels linked to the mainspring barrel) onto the balance wheel. In other words, the plays a major role in dividing each "beat" into equal doses, as every "tick" of the Replica releases only a small amount of energy from the mainspring. Franck muller has announced a new Replica design - a hugely impressive achievement that greatly relies on the company's extensive know-how in crafting silicon. Before we discuss this new design which the brand likes to refer to as a "," we should first obtain a better understanding of the peculiar material without which such a remarkable advancement would not have been possible. Silicon (or in some parts of the world: silicium) was in fact titled and treated as the outlaw of all horological materials, when a handful of brands announced that they initiated researching its possible utilization in movements back at the dawn of the new millennia. Among the pioneers who presented the first breakthroughs linked to the incorporation of this "unorthodox" material were Franck muller, the brand that was first to execute an Replica in this metalloid. And while there were many who objected to the use of silicon in fine timepieces, it was only a matter of time before its obvious advantages finally outweighed its lack of history in the industry. To begin with, silicon is hard enough to render lubricants redundant, and that coupled with its anti-magnetic attributes is helping to extend service periods and greater overall reliability. It couples its hardness with surprising lightness that makes for more efficient use of the movement's energy, allowing for more power-consuming complications and/or improved power reserve. However, what probably is its most important property that ultimately allowed Franck muller to come up with its new Replica is the extreme precision with which silicon components can be manufactured. Now, discussing what this Replica does will certainly demonstrate why creating a new design is among the greatest challenges in horology?Cin advance let's suffice it to say that it requires an ingenious idea that was planned to perfection and then backed up with the necessary state-of-the-art manufacturing abilities.