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Ulysse Nardin has announced a brand new version of their Freak watch, The Freak ONE for Watches and Wonders Geneva 2023. The Freak has been one of Ulysse Nardin’s mainstays for years, first debuting in 2001, and has undergone several different versions and redesigns. This year, the brand introduces a new Freak that showcases the Freak’s most essential and celebrated designs and technological advances throughout the course of its 22-year history.

When the brand unveiled the Freak in 2001, it fomented a revolution on three fronts — design, mechanical and material — while being steeped in tradition. It lacked a proper dial, or hands for that matter; instead, mounted on a huge mainspring barrel was a linear gear train that made a complete revolution once per hour, doubling as the minute hand of the watch. The new installation is no different, it makes for an extremely compelling Freak that preserves the trailblazing construction of the original while offering the convenience of a mechanically superior automatic winding system in a lightweight and undeniably cool package.