Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 64

Franck Muller ? Pink Gold Vegas Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex Vegas", No. 96, Ref. 5850 Vegas. Made in the 1990s. Fine and unusual, tonneau-shaped, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with "roulette" module indication and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, a co-axial push-button on the winding-crown activates the center hand which spins very quickly and stops randomly when releasing the push-button, rounded band, sapphire crystal. D. Lacquered guilloché silver with graduated painted Arabic numerals, at the centre, matte silver ring dial with the 36 "lucky" numbers, concentric, the roulette graduation with black and red cartouches. Luminous blued steel hands for the time, serpentine white arrow for the roulette. M. Cal. 2800, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 32 x 45 mm. Thickness 11 mm.