Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 296

Franck Muller, Geneve, "Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar, Equation of Time,? No. 08, Ref. 7000 QP E. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde monthly equation of time, round button chronograph, register and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver with applied pyramidindexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register, the 24 hours, the days of the weekand the month, sector for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time at 6, aperture for themoon phases. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 26 jewels,straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensatingflat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 39 mm. Thickness: 13.5 mm.