Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 40

?Platinum Double-Face No. 3? Franck Muller, Genève, "Perpetual Calendar Chronograph", Ref. 7000 QPEDF. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, double-face, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phase, retrograde monthly equation of time, 42-hour autonomy, round button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer, and a platinum Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with pyramidal blue indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the days of the months, the week, the leap year, the 24-hours, semi-circular graduation for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time above 6, 30-minute register, aperture for the moon phases, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, subsidiary two-tone silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations, inner telemeter graduation, concentric tachometer scale. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 1870, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperature, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.