Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 300

"Quantième Perpétuel Biretro" Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex - Quantième Perpétuel Biretro", No. 34, Ref. 7850 CC QPB. Made circa 2000. Very fine, large, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with oliveshaped button chronograph, biretrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws and inscription, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 30- minute and 12-hour registers and the months, sectors for the retrograde days of the months and the week, aperture for the leap year and the moon phases. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 5888 BR, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 45 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 47 mm. Thickness 14 mm.