Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 14

"Endurance" Franck Muller, Genève, ?Endurance ? Chronograph?, No. 128. Made in the 1990s. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, tachometer graduation on the bezel to 1000 units per hour, concave lugs, screwed-down case back and buttons, domed sapphire crystal. D. Bi-colored red and black with luminous Arabic numerals and indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary ?guilloché? dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous blued steel "lozenge" hands. M. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, "fausses-côtes" decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15 mm.