Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 40

FRANCK MULLER REF. 7000 ENDURANCE GT Franck Muller, Geneve, "Endurance GT," No. 145, Ref. 7000 R EN. Made in 1995 for the World Endurance Championship. Very fine, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button co-axial split-seconds chronograph, registers and tachometer.

Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, curved lugs with screw-bars, winding crown with co-axial button for the split-second operation, snap-on case back, sapphire crystal. Two-tone silver with applied blued steel star indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-seconds Arabic markers, outermost tachometer scale to 1000 UPH. Blued steel feuille hands. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, 30 jewels, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.