Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 243

Franck Muller - Yellow Gold - double-Face - chronoGraph - no. 06 Franck Muller, "Chronograph Double Face," No. 06. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, double-face, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, screwed gold bars, transparent case back displaying the tachometer, telemeter and pulsometer, sapphire crystals. d. Two-tone silver with painted Breguet numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minutes/seconds Arabic markers. Blued steel Breguet hands. On the back, two-tone silvered dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner reserve with telemeter graduation and central spiral tachometer. M. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm.