Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 193

Franck Muller Chronograph Perpetual Calendar Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar, Equation of Time,? No. 23, Ref. 7000 QP E. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde monthly equation of time, round button chronograph, register and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight-lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver with applied pyramid indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register, the 24 hours, the days of the week and the month, sector for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time at 6, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 13.5 mm.