Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 412

Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar - Equation of Time Franck Muller, Genève, "Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar - Equation of Time,? No. 03, Ref. RMQPE. Made in the 2000s. Extremely fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, equation of time, moon phases, 24 hour indication and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box. To be sold without reserve

USD 40,000 - 60,000

EUR 30,000 - 47,000 / CHF 46,000 - 70,000

Sold: USD 45,600

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, straight and rounded lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with painted radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, guilloché ring dials for the days, week, the leap year, 24 hours, at 12 sector for the equation of time, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 13???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.


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Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 1

As new

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original