Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 212

FRANCK MULLER EARLY MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR Franck Muller, Geneve, "Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar". Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold buckle.

CHF 20,000 - 30,000

HKD 172,000 - 258,000 / USD 21,000 - 32,000

Sold: CHF 45,000

Three-body, solid, polished, coin-edge band, correctors on the band, snap on case back, straight and rounded lugs, sapphire crystal. Satiné silver with applied gold bâton indexes, subsidiary dials for the day, the month with leap year, the date, apertur for the moon phase at 6, outer minute division. Blued steel leaf hands. Cal. 12''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic balance with timing screws, index regulator, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade:
Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial signed by the maker, movement signed and numbered « E.Koehn no. 77755 », case stamped with gold marks and casemaker initials JHP for Jean Pierre Hagmann. DIAM. 37 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.