Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 338

?Tourbillon - Minute-Repeater? Franck Muller, Genève, ?Tourbillon - Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar - Equation of Time? No. 03. Made in the 2000s. Extremely fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K white gold gentleman?s wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar, monthly equation of time indication, moon phases and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, setting pin and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight and rounded lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone matte silver with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, ring dials for the days of the month, of the week, the leap year, the 24 hours, at 12 sector for the equation of time, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 14???, ?First Quality?, hand-engraved, rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with A-shaped steel frame under a polished steel bridge, monometallic balance, adjusted, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, ?wolf?s teeth? winding wheels. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.