Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 513

Franck Muller White Gold Perpetual Bi-Retrogade Chronograph Franck Muller, Geneve, "Master of Complications" No. 05. "Perpe-tual Biretro" Ref. 7000 CC QP B. Made in the 2000s. Fine and rare, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, leap-year indication, bi-retrograde day and date, round button chronograph, registers, moon phases and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a Franck Muller winding carrousel box and push pin

C. Three-body, brushed, coin-edge band with correctors, inclined bezel, large straight curled lugs with faux screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche black with plain matte silver elliptic ring on the left for the retrograde days of the week, date on the right, outer 1/5th second scale with red 5 minute intervals, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers and the months, apertures for the leap year indication and the moon phases. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. FM 7000 B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.