Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 44

Franck Muller - Yellow Gold - Chronograph - Automatic Franck Muller Genève, "Automatic," Ref. 7000 CC 36. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Cellini deployant clasp. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver with applied blued steel dot indexes and Roman numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers and tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hours and 30-minutes registers. Blued steel feuille hands. m. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 8 adjustments, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.