Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 564

Franck Muller Ref. 7000 Limited Edition Yellow Gold Franck Muller, Genève, ?Chronograph Double Face,? Automatic, No. 21/50, Ref. 7000 DF. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2007. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, water resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Accomapnied by a fitted box and paper.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, screwed gold bars, rounded bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Two tone silver (Sandblasting and guilloché) with applied purple painted Roman numeral indexes, subsidiary Sandblasting and guilloché silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale. On the back: Two tone silver (Sandblasting and guilloché) with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner guilloché reserve telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. Blue steel Breguet hands. M. 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector