Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 221

?Chronographe à Double Face? Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronographe à double face?, Automatic, Ref. 7000 DF. Made circa 2000. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color black and silver with applied white gold dots and a ?12? numeral, subsidiary "guilloché" silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, bi-color black and silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner "guilloché" reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm.