Important Limited Edition & Modern Co...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Sep 25, 2002

LOT 123

Franck Muller Genève, "Cintrée Cur-vex - Chronographe - Quantième Perpétuel Biretrograde", No. 40, Ref. 6850 CC QPB. Produced in 2000, sold on May 11, 2001. Very fine and important, tonneau-shaped, self-win-ding, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with 40 hours autonomy, olive-shaped button chrono-graph, bi-retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K white gold Franck Muller deployant clasp. Accompanied by a white gold corrector pusher, a fitted electric win-ding-box and a certificate.

C. two-body, solid, polished, case back with screws, domed sapphire crystal. D. "guilloché" silver with painted stylized Arabic numerals, auxiliary dials for the 30 minute and 12 hour registers in red Arabic numerals, the months in black Arabic numerals, sectors for the retrograde day of the month and of the week, aperture for the leap year. "Lozenge" luminous hands for the hours, minutes and months, blued steel for the bi-retrograde calendar. M. Cal. 5888 BR, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 45 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-ab-sorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 34 x 47 mm.