Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 76

Platinum ?Chronographe à Double Face? No. 00. Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronographe à double face?, Automatic, Ref. 7000 DF. Made circa 2000. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and a platinum Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two tone black and silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer seconds scale, on the back, two-tone silver and black dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations, inner reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. White gold ?feuille? hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.