Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 37

Franck Muller - Pink Gold & PVD - Conquistador - Grand Prix - Chronograph Franck Muller, Genève, "Conquistador ? Grand Prix," No. 77, Ref. 9900 CC GP. Made circa 2010. Fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold and PVD-coated wristwatch with date, triangular button chronograph, register and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, PVD-coated bezel with 5-minute Arabic markers, PVD-coated case back secured by 4 screws, screwed-down winding crown, curved sapphire crystal, push button at 9 for adjusting the date. D. Guilloche black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale with five-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute registers, cyclops aperture for the date at 6. Luminous black dauphine hands, red arrow for the chronograph hand. M. Cal. FM 7002, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 51 x 62 mm. Thickness 15 mm.