Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 222

?Yellow Gold Perpetual Calendar Double-Face No. 3? Franck Muller, Genève, "Perpetual Calendar Chronograph", Ref. 7000 QPEDF. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, double-dial, astronomic, selfwinding, 42-hour power reserve, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phase, retrograde months with equation of time indication, round button chronograph, register, tachometer, telemeter, pulsometer, and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone silver with pyramidal blue indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, the days of the week, the leap year, the 24-hours, semi-circular graduation for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time above 6, 30- minute register, aperture for the moon phases, outer 1/5th seconds scale, on the back, subsidiary two-tone silver dial with outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations, inner telemeter graduation, concentric tachometer scale. Blued steel "Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 1870, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperature, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.