Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 46

FRANCK MULLER REF. 2880 ENDURANCE 24 STEEL Franck Muller, Genève, "Endurance 24", No. 270, Ref. 2880. Made circa 1990's. Fine, manual-winding, water-resistant, round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and 24-hour dial, stainless steel wristwatch.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, screwed- down case back with "Endurance 24" decoration, sapphire crystal. Black with luminous Arabic numerals in 24-hour graduation, outer minute graduation in red Arabic markers and outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Luminous blued steel lozenge hands. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed.