Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 335

FRANCK MULLER REF 7000 QPE PINK GOLD Franck Muller, "Perpetual Calendar, Chronograph", No. 23, Ref. 7000 QPE. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde monthly equation of time, 24-hour indication, round button chronograph and register with an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, (blank) certificate and instruction papers.

Three-body, solid, polished, curved lugs, screwed bars, transparent snap-on case back, sapphire crystals. Two-tone silver with applied blued steel pyramidal indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the date, the leap year, 24-hour indication and 30-minute register, sector for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time at 6, aperture for the moon phases at 12, outer minutes/seconds divisions with 5-seconds Arabic numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.