Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 50

Franck Muller - White Gold - Perpetual Calendar Retrograde Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex, Perpetual Calendar," Ref. 6850 QPE. Made in 2001. Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, curved, astronomic, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with oval shaped button chronograph, perpetual calendar with retrograde month, moon phases and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Arabic numerals and indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-seconds Arabic markers on a plain reserve, subsidiary guilloche silver dials for the days of the month, of the week, the 24 hours and the leap year, retrograde sector for the months and equation of time at 6, aperture for the moon phases at 12. Blued steel spade hands. m. Cal. 1188MC, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, rotor with platinum segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 47 mm. Thickness 13 mm.