Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 253

"Biretro Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar" Franck Muller, Genève, No. 58, Ref. 7000 CC QP B. Made in 2006. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, perpetual calendar with retograde day and date, moon phases, and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, brushed, straight curly lugs, gold screwed bars, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor guilloché black and silver with outer 1/5th second scale and red Arabic 5 minute/second markers, concentric sectors for the retrograde days of the week and for the date, subsidiary dials for the months, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, apertures for the moon phases at 6 and the leap year at 12. Luminous blued steel "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 5888, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" and "fausses-côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock aborber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.