$84,000
Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar Franck Muller, Geneve, "Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar”, No. 03. Made in the 2000’s. Extremely fine and rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, and an 18K yellow gold Franck Muller buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, straight and rounded lugs, sapphire crystals. Satiné silver with printed radial Roman numerals on an outer plain reserve, guilloché ring dials for the days, week, the leap year, 24 hours, aperture for the moon phases, graduated sector for the “couple de sonnerie”. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 14’’’, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Notes What is a Minute Repeater? Aminute repeating watch tells the time both visually and audibly. A slide on the side of the case, usually near the 9, will activate two hammers in the movement. These hammers strike two gongs curled within the case. First one hammer strikes a gong of lower tonality; it will count out the hours. Then both hammers will strike both gongs alternatively to count out the quarter hours after that hour, and then the second hammer alone striking a gong of higher tonality will count out the minutes after that quarter hour
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
