Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 42

FRANCK MULLER MAGNUM CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintree Curvex, Magnum Chronograph, Master Calendar", No. 07, movement No. 4495874, Ref. 6850 CC MC. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, tonneau-shaped and curved, self-winding, water resistant to 30 meters, 18K pink gold wristwatch with triple date, registers and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. Guilloche silver with sunray pattern and painted Arabic numerals, outer graduation for the date, outermost 1/5th seconds track with red 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, 30-minute register and 24-hour indication, apertures for the days of the week and the months. Blued steel double spade hands. Cal. Based Lemania 1870, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.