One of the biggest perks about this job is discovering things that I previously wouldn’t have known about myself. Now, I know that sounds both simultaneously profound and clichéd, and I am talking about watches after all, not the meaning of life … but it’s true, this job has taught me a great deal about myself that I otherwise wouldn’t have known. That’s what this Franck Muller Color Dreams did when I went hands-on with it … it completely shook up my personal status quo. Allow me to explain. If you’d told me that I’d fall head over heels for a robust, brushed steel, utilitarian tool watch with a matt grey dial and a faded bezel, I would’ve told you duh, that’s about as shocking as getting wet when you jump into a pool. However, if you told me that I’d become completely enamoured with a solid rose gold, rectangular-shaped timepiece with full diamond bezel, technicolour Arabic numeral dial and a green alligator leather band, I would’ve said you don’t know me from a bar of soap. But, as it turned out, I did not know myself from a bar of Dove hand soap, because this Franck Muller Long Island…
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