Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 50

Yellow Gold "Conquistador" Franck Muller, Genève, "Conquistador," Ref. 8005 CC. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with ovalshaped button chronograph, register, date and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with 4 screws, screwed-down winding-crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor guilloché blue and silver with luminous painted radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. FM 7000, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 35 x 47 mm. Thickness 13 mm.