Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 27

Franck Muller White Gold Cintrée Curvex Chrono graphe Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex Chronographe", No. 07, Ref. 5850 CC. Made in the 1990s. Fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with olive-shaped button chronograph, register and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a Franck Muller Certificate of Origin (blank).

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals, inner concentric 1/5th seconds scale with black 5-minute/seconds Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel feuille hands. M. Cal. 1872, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 45 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.