$23,000
Franck Muller, Genève, "Cintrée Curvex Perpetual Calendar", Ref. 6850 QPE. Produced in 2001.Very fine and rare, tonneau-shaped, astronomic, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with oval shaped button chronograph, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. two-body, solid, polished and brushed, sapphire crystal. Cal. 1188MC, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, rotor with platinum segment.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 34 x 47 mm. Notes Franck MullerFranck Muller is a contemporary watchmaker born in July 1958 to a Swiss father and a mother of Italian descent. He spent three years at the Geneva Ecole d’Horlogerie, where he was a brilliant student, ranking first in his class and earning two diplomas. He was awarded, as a prize, a Rolex watch to be put together. "Rather than just putting it together in the classic manner, I had fun transforming it, adding a retrograde perpetual calendar, which allowed me to sell it to a collector. The sum therby earned allowed Franck Muller to finance his first workshop, in Geneva’s Eaux-Vives quarter.He rapidly gained the confidence of prestigious collectors and private museums, who called upon him to restore their antique watches. However, his quick mind and nimble fingers soon led him to create his own mechanisms.In 1983, Muller created the first watch signed "Franck Genève”, and ast
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-05-08
