Franck Muller has created an off-the-wall cigar lighter watch.
It is a partnership with luxury goods and cigar lighter specialist S.T. Dupont.
The S.T. Dupont X Franck Muller Master Lighter is a fully functional cigar lighter.
And it is also a mechanical watch with a three-day power reserve.
On one side is a sunray-stamped lacquered dial, with hours and minutes displayed via central hands.
The other side of the lighter shows the watch’s skeletonised movement.
The technical achievement, Franck Muller tells us, is the fact that the “axis indicating the hours and minutes runs right through the lighter, passing through the centre of the gas reservoir.”
Combining these “cutting-edge micromechanics” was a joint effort between the two companies.
The Master Lighter has a gentle twin flame – a characteristic of S.T. Dupont cigar lighters.
Franck Muller was founded in 1991 by the master watchmaker of the same name, along with fellow expert Vartan Sirmakes.
S.T. Dupont has been making luxury goods in the French Alps since 1872.
The S.T. Dupont x Franck Muller Master Lighter comes in either white, blue or black, with 88 pieces available of each colour.
From $66,000 franckmuller.com