Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 154

FRANCK MULLER REF. 7000 QPA PERPETUAL CALENDAR WHITE GOLD Franck Muller, "Automatic Perpetual Calendar," No. 46, Ref. 7000 QPA. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, center seconds, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde monthly equation of time, 42 hours autonomy and an 18K white gold Franck Muller deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, straight lugs, screwed bars, sapphire crystal. Bicolor black and silver with pyramidal blue indexes, subsidiary guilloché dials for the days of the week, the months, the leap year, semi-circular graduation for the retrograde indication of the months and equation of time above the 6, graduation for the age of the moon and aperture for the moon phases under the 12, outer 1/5th second scale. White gold Breguet hands. Cal. 7000, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperature, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, platinum rotor.