Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 212

FRANCK MULLER REF. 2851 RM QP MINUTE REPEATER PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD Franck Muller, Genève, Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar, No. 05, Ref. 2851 RM QP. Made in the 2000s. Very fine and very rare, tonneau-shaped, curved, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, case back with 4 screws in the band, sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone silver with painted radial Arabic numerals, guilloché ring dials for the days, week, the leap year, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 2802, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 32 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 30 x 45 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.