Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 146

Franck Muller Pink Gold Conquistador Franck Muller, Genève, "Conquistador", No. 99, Ref. 8001 CC. Made in the early 2000s. Fine, curved, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, guarantee and instruction booklet.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, case back with 4 screws, screwed-down winding-crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche black with painted luminous radial and graduated Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute register, outer minute divisions magnifying aperture for the date at 6. Luminous pink gold feuille hands, arrow center-seconds hand with red tip. M. Cal. FM 1185, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, platinum rotor segment. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 35 x 41 mm. Thickness 12 mm.