FRANCK MULLER – Vanguard Crazy Hours Jisbar

Key Highlights

• Feminine reinterpretation of the Franck Muller x Jisbar Crazy Hours collaboration, presented at WPHH 2026 in Geneva
• Available in 32mm and 35mm on a white strap, in steel and gold
• Total edition of 150 pieces: 25 gold in each size, 50 steel in each size
• Dial conceived as an autonomous artwork — twelve elements from Jisbar’s visual universe deconstructed and recomposed
• Crazy Hours complication: randomly arranged numerals that jump every hour to display correct time
• Collaboration between Franck Muller and Jisbar ongoing since 2025; Jisbar exhibits internationally including in Dubai

A Complication Built on Two Kinds of Boldness

The Crazy Hours complication has always occupied a singular position in Franck Muller’s catalogue. Hour numerals distributed at random across the dial, each jumping on the hour to indicate the correct time: the mechanism is theatrically precise, a kind of mechanical paradox that rewards attention. Since its creation, it has functioned as a signature rather than a mere technical feature — proof that complications can carry a distinct creative personality.

When Franck Muller and Jisbar formalised their partnership in 2025, the Crazy Hours became the natural vehicle. Nicholas Rudaz, CEO of Franck Muller Geneva, framed it directly: “Franck Muller created the jumping hour complication. JISBAR added an artistic visual complication.” Two forms of disruption, each operating on its own register, occupying the same dial without competition.

The Masculine Precedent

The first iteration of the Crazy Hours x Jisbar spoke in a language of graphic force — saturated, confrontational, unmistakably urban. That version established the creative territory. The feminine edition does not soften it. As Jisbar stated: “The masculine version spoke of power. This one speaks of something even rarer: strength that does not need to justify itself.” The shift is one of register, not of conviction.

The Dial as Artwork

Twelve elements from Jisbar’s visual universe were selected, deconstructed, and recomposed to construct the dial composition. Each element references a specific work; together they form a visual narrative that reads differently at arm’s length than it does up close. The chromatic intensity is intact — the palette has been revisited in a more feminine register without conceding graphic energy. On a 32mm or 35mm surface, the density of the composition is, as Jisbar himself noted, the constraint that makes it exciting: “When art fits into 32 millimeters, it becomes portable.”

Proportions, Materials, and Edition Structure

The choice to offer two sizes — 32mm and 35mm — reflects a straightforward editorial decision: the collaboration needed proportions appropriate to the wrist without reducing the dial real estate that Jisbar’s composition requires. Both are presented on a white strap, a deliberate contrast that allows the dial’s chromatic complexity to read cleanly.

Materials extend to steel and gold, maintaining the hierarchy that collectors expect from a Franck Muller limited release. The edition breakdown is precise: 25 gold pieces in 32mm, 25 in 35mm, 50 steel pieces in 32mm, and 50 in 35mm — 150 pieces in total. For collectors in the GCC market, where art-horology crossovers by houses such as those featured at Watches and Wonders command consistent attention, the limited structure ensures genuine scarcity rather than managed perception of it.

Jisbar, Geneva, and the Logic of the Collector Object

Born in 1989, Jisbar has built a practice that works across painting, digital, and collaborative projects. His pop-street language draws on art history, fashion, sport, and music — reprocessed through an instinctive graphic sensibility with bold typography as a recurring structural element. He exhibits in New York, Venice, Singapore, Geneva, and Dubai, a circuit that maps almost exactly onto the geography of the contemporary luxury collector.

That geographical alignment is not incidental. The GCC collector encounters Jisbar’s work in gallery contexts before encountering it on the wrist, which changes how the Franck Muller collaboration reads. This is not a watch with artistic decoration; it is a collector object that happens to tell time — and to tell it in the most theatrically Franck Muller way imaginable. For context on the breadth of Franck Muller’s horological ambition, the Vanguard Aero Revolution 3 and the Vanguard Revolution 3 Skeleton illustrate how differently the manufacture can occupy the same brand space.

WPHH 2026 and What Comes Next

The Crazy Hours x Jisbar feminine edition had its world premiere at WPHH 2026, presented at Watchland in Geneva on April 14. Following the fair, it will be distributed through official Franck Muller retailers. For collectors in the Gulf, the combination of genuine edition limits and Jisbar’s growing international profile makes this a release that warrants early attention.

For collector inquiries and availability in the GCC, contact your official Franck Muller retailer directly.

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