Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 254

FRANCK MULLER, 7000 CC, DOUBLE FACE, WHITE GOLD Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronograph Double Face," Automatic, No. 166, Ref. 7000 CC DF. Sold in 1998. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by the original certificate, instruction manual and fitted box.

Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, screwed gold bars, rounded bezel, sapphire crystals. Bi-color black and silver with applied white gold dots and a numeral "12", subsidiary guilloché silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, bi-color black and silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner guilloché reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment.