Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 244

Franck Muller - Yellow Gold - chronoGraph Franck Muller, Genève, Master of Complications, Chronograph, No. 41, Ref. 5850 CC. Made in the 1990s. Fine, tonneau shaped, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register and an 18K yellow gold deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

c. Two body, solid, polished, case back with 4 screws, domed sapphire crystal. d. Guilloché silver with painted radial Arabic numerals and baton indexes, concentric 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/ seconds red Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 45 mm. Thickness 11 mm.