Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 182

Franck Muller Pink Gold Chronograph - Double Face Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronograph Double Face,? Automatic, No. 28, Ref. 7000 DF. Made in circa 2000. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, screwed gold bars, rounded bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Bi-color black and silver with applied pink gold dots and a numeral ?12?, subsidiary guilloché silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, bi-color black and silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner guilloché reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14 mm.