Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 39

?Pink Double-Face No. 20? Franck Muller, "Chronograph Double Face ", No. 20. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, double-face, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with painted Breguet numerals, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds scale with Arabic 5 minutes/seconds. Luminous gold "bâton" hands. On the back, two-tone silvered dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner reserve with telemeter graduation and central spiral tachometer. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.