Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 36

Franck Muller - Pink Gold - Chrono Banker Franck Muller, Genève, ?Chrono Banker,? No. 12, Ref. 8880 CC MB. Made in 2010, sold July 21st, 2010. Fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with triangular button chronograph, instantaneous register, three time zones, date and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin and setting pin.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, rounded band, case back with 4 screws, curved sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Arabic numerals and indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the 30-minute register, 2 additional individually adjustable time zones, the date and the seconds, outer seconds / minutes graduation. Blued steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. FM. 7000, 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. Dim. 39 x 54 mm. Thickness 16 mm.