Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 45

FRANCK MULLER REF. 10000 H CC CORTEZ CONQUISTADOR CHRONOGRAPH STAINLESS STEEL Franck Muller, Genève, "Cortez Conquistador", Chronograph, No.227, Ref. 10000 H CC. Made circa 2011. Fine, large, square and curved, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with oval button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Franck Muller buckle.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, screwed-down winding-crown, curved sapphire crystal. Lacquered engine-turned silver with large luminous painted radial Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds division with red 5-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous blued steel feuille hands. Cal. FM 1185, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperatures, self-compensating flat balance spring, platinum rotor segment.