The Ulysse Nardin Freak is Having a Killer Moment
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...
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Ulysse Nardin’s “Freak One”
“I just love the Freak One. It?s just an amazing watch. It?s a status watch. It?s a killer watch,? enthuses George
Bamford, of Bamford Watch Department, and a Grand Prix of Horlogerie de Geneve jury member. ?I mean, just calling it the Freak is impressive enough because that must have been a huge risk when the collection was first launched over 20 years ago. But then you have all that design content, those big ideas. It?s freaking nuts. It?s freaking mad.?
Ulysse Nardin’s “Freak One”
In 2023, the Grand Prix of Horlogerie de Geneve named Ulysee Nardin?s Freak One the winner of its ?iconic? category, acknowledging this latest iteration of the line debuted in 2001 ? under the leadership of Rolf Schnyder and the watchmaking radicalism of Carole Forestier and Ludwig Oechslin ? as totemic of something bigger than itself: a shift in the way watches were conceived and, in turn, perceived.
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, proposin...
The post The Ulysse Nardin Freak is Having a Killer Moment appeared first on LUXUO.
Ulysse Nardin’s “Freak One”
“I just love the Freak One. It?s just an amazing watch. It?s a status watch. It?s a killer watch,? enthuses George
Bamford, of Bamford Watch Department, and a Grand Prix of Horlogerie de Geneve jury member. ?I mean, just calling it the Freak is impressive enough because that must have been a huge risk when the collection was first launched over 20 years ago. But then you have all that design content, those big ideas. It?s freaking nuts. It?s freaking mad.?
Ulysse Nardin’s “Freak One”
In 2023, the Grand Prix of Horlogerie de Geneve named Ulysee Nardin?s Freak One the winner of its ?iconic? category, acknowledging this latest iteration of the line debuted in 2001 ? under the leadership of Rolf Schnyder and the watchmaking radicalism of Carole Forestier and Ludwig Oechslin ? as totemic of something bigger than itself: a shift in the way watches were conceived and, in turn, perceived.
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, proposin...
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