Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 77

Franck Muller Steel Conquistador Franck Muller, Genève, "King Conquistador," No. 409, Ref. 8001 CC. Made in the early 2000?s. Fine, curved tonneau-shaped, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel deployant clasp, and a fitted box.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, case back with 4 screws, screwed-down winding-crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with painted luminous radial and graduated Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute register, outer minute divisions magnifying aperture for the date at 6. Luminous blued steel feuille hands, arrow center-seconds hand with red tip. M. Cal. FM 1185, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, platinum rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 35 x 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm.