Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 55

?Magnum Chronograph" Franck Muller, Genève, ?Cintree Curvex, Magnum Chronograph Master Calendar", No. 283, Ref. 6850 CC MC AT. Made circa 2000. Fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, water-resistant to 30 meters, stainless steel gentleman?s wristwatch with oval-shaped button chronograph, registers, triple date and a stainless steel Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

USD 9,500 - 11,000

EUR 8,000 - 9,000

Sold: USD 9,200

C. Two-body, polished, screwed-down case back with 4 screws, domed sapphire crystal. D. ?Guilloché? silver with painted stylized radial Arabic numerals, outer graduation for the date in red, outermost 1/5th seconds and minute graduations, subsidiary ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal.1188 MC, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 45 mm. Thickness 13 mm.


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-7

Good

Oxidized
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

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This is what makes this brand so exclusive and enhances the uniqueness of each collection. The creation of the most complicated watch in the world in 1992?enriched by new functions in 1998 and hailed again as a world record? brought worldwide attention to the event and confirmed the international prestige of the company. Each year since a new and unique timepiece is launched?a world first again and again. Its complications so successfully combined set the horological world ablaze with delight. The forms, richer every year, continually reconfirm the creator?s unique style, immediately and undeniably recognizable. Such new creations today are ?Casablanca?, ?Havana?, ?Master Banker? or ?Conquistador?, to only name a few, each a faithful retranscription of the original and creative talent of Franck Muller. Franck Muller?s masterpieces, veritable collectors timepieces, are today exhibited in the most prestigious cities of the world, from Europe to Asia as well as America, the Middle-East and Australia