Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 10, 2010

LOT 456

FRANCK MULLER PERPETUAL CALENDAR DOUBLE-DIAL CHRONOGRAPH NUMBER 02 Franck Muller, Genève, No. 02. Ref. 7000 QPEDF. Produced in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, double-dial, astronomic, self-winding, 42-hour power reserve, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phase, retrograde months with equation of time indication, round button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer, and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a Franck Muller winding box and setting pin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, inset calendar adjusters to the band, straight curled lugs with faux screws, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with pyramidal blue indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, the days of the week, the leap year, the 24-hours, semi-circular graduation for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time above 6, 30-minute register, aperture for the moon phases, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, subsidiary two-tone silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations, inner telemeter graduation, concentric tachometer scale. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperature, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm. From The Arman Collection