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Franck Muller Transamerica Master Banker CC MB Luxury Watch Review

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Channel: The 1916 Company · 2015 · Howto & Style

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The Franck Muller Transamerica Master Banker CC MB gives world travelers three ways to tell time. And as one of only 500 built in a year-2000 limited edition, this child of Y2K will provide only a few fortunate collectors the opportunity to pull a horological "hat trick."

As a three (3!) time zone travel watch with a date, chronograph, and automatic winding, the Franck Muller Transamerica CC MB comes loaded with more features than any 40mm stainless steel watch has a right to claim. "Master of Complications," indeed, Mr. Muller...

Franck Muller of Geneva has been a go-to for connoisseurs of independent horology since before the term was considered cool. Although his eponymous firm built its fame on the tonneau case, this Transamerica Master Banker CC MB proves that Franck Muller also knows his way around (pun intended) a circular case. 

With graceful arched lugs and artful use of alternating steel finish to accentuate intersecting planes, the Transamerica enjoys a handsome profile to match the high horology that lies within. 

The dial is the star of the show; Franck Muller endows his Transamerica Master Banker CC MB with a face that evokes the full range of the Americas: north, south, and central. A color palette of red, white, black, blue, and lime luminova plays adorns Muller's canvas. 

The four-register "panda" black-on-white dial base recalls the great motorsports chronographs of the 60s and 70s. A radial date at three o'clock is linked to the local time at center, and each of the secondary timezones feature at 12 and six o'clock; the subdial at 12 acts as a mono counter on which the 30-minute chronograph register is superimposed above the twin hands of the reference time zone.

Thanks in large part to a supple rubberized leather strap, the Franck Muller Transamerica Master Banker CC MB is agreeable travel companion. It conforms easily to the curvature of a smaller wrist, but it features robust bolstering to wear with presence on a larger forearm.

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