Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 253

Franck Muller, "Chronograph à double face Automatic", No. 25, Ref. 7000 DF. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with 42 hours autonomy, round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, sapphire crystals.D. Bi-color black and silver with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, black dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner "guilloché" reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.