Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 54

?Quantième Perpétuel Biretro" Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex, Quantième Perpétuel Biretro", No. 75, Ref. 7850 CC QPB. Produced circa 2000. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, bi-retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller bracelet and deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 17,000 - 20,000

EUR 14,000 - 17,000

Sold: USD 26,450

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws and inscription, domed sapphire crystal. D. "Guilloché" silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers and the months, sectors for the retrograde days of the months and the week, aperture for the leap year and the moon phases. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 5888 BR, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 45 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 47 mm. Thickness 14 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Franck Muller Passion, precision and innovation are the three essential qualities that highlight the creative genius of Franck Muller. For over ten years, the history of his watches has been marked by innumerable masterpieces and collections giving a contemporary style and spirit within the legendary universe of the Art of Watchmaking. The important dates in Franck Muller?s watchmaking career include: 1983, the date in which he created the first watch signed "Franck Genève; 1992", which represents the founding of the company, the opening of the first Franck Muller store in the world and the invention of the most complicated wristwatch ever made in horological history; 1995 symbolizing the inauguration of the new Franck Muller administrative and production headquarters in Genthod, near Geneva, Switzerland. Furthermore, Franck Muller leaps into the third millennium with the creation of Watchland, a new architectural universe honoring the watchmaking art and savoir-faire, which opened to the public in the year 2000. Franck Muller is one of the only prestigious manufactures whose creator signs each single model in his lifetime.