Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 221

?Chronographe à Double Face? Franck Muller, Genève, "Chronographe à double face?, Automatic, Ref. 7000 DF. Made circa 2000. Very fine and unusual, double-face, self-winding, waterresistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer and a platinum Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two tone silver with applied blued steel radial Roman numerals, subsidiary silver dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, two-tone silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 200 pulsations, inner reserve with telemeter graduation and at the center, spiral tachometric scale. Blued steel ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor segment. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 14.8 mm.