Timeless Beauty: Spectacular Wristwat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 24, 2004

LOT 80

Franck Muller Genève, Master of Complications No. 01, Ref. 7000 R. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and important, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-second chronograph register and tachometer 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, engraved case back, rounded bezel and lugs, white gold screwed bars, sapphire crystal. D. Black and mother-of-pearl with painted Arabic numerals for the subsidiary second and 30-minute register indications, off-center dial on the 6 for the hours in Roman numerals. Blued-steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 7000 rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 8 adjustments, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, platinum rotor, the push-button on the 8 is for stop and reunite of the split-second hand. Dial, case and movement signed .Diam. 39 mm.