Franck Muller’s Cobra watch takes an obsession with exotic skins to new heights.


Franck Muller’s Cobra watch takes an obsession with exotic skins to new heights.

With the slew of reptilian fashion slithering down the runway this season, Franck Muller’s Cobra comes at a perfect time. It features a case design that’s decorated with 3D snake scales that look as if they’ve been set in place piece-by-gleaming-piece. This is achieved by milling a mass of 18-karat rose gold (or stainless steel) on a high-tech machine with five-axis, resulting in differently angled scales for an impressively realistic effect. A rubber and scales-embossed leather strap completes the illusion of having tamed wild nature for your wrist. This timepiece’s bold design is typical of the House of Franck Muller, as the horology brand takes gleeful delight in bucking convention and delivering the unexpected: With a wild and wonderful reputation garnered from groundbreaking watches like the Crazy Hours and Aeternitas Mega, this isn’t a brand that follows convention or rules. Available in an automatic with central seconds, and a chronograph, this watch takes exotic paraphenalia to a whole new luxe level. You might want to give your croco bags and python heels a rest for now. This watch shows how it’s really done.