Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 07, 2011

LOT 298

FRANCK MULLER YELLOW GOLD SPLIT CHRONOGRAPH Franck Muller, ?Split Chronograph? No.06 . Made in the 1990s. Fine and rare, early, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register and an 18K yellow gold buckle.

C. Three body, solid, polished, screwed bars, inclined bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30 minutes register, outer minutes/seconds divisions with every fi ve Arabic markers, signed ?No. 06?at 6. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 179, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 20 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self- compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness. 12 mm