1,340,000 HKD
FRANCK MULLER CALIBER 97 GRANDE ET PETITE SONNERIE MINUTE REPEATER PERPETUAL CALENDAR NO. 00 WHITE GOLD Franck Muller, Geneve, Grande et Petite Sonnerie, Minute-Repeater Perpetual Calendar, No. 00. Made circa 1997. Possibly unique, fine and rare, astronomic, grande et petite sonnerie minute-repeating, 18K white gold wristwatch with retrograde perpetual calendar, equation of time, moon phases and 24 hour display and an 18K white gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box. Three-body, solid, brushed, reeded band, repeater slide on the band, selection for the Grande, Petite, Silence at 2, transparent case back, fl exible lugs, sapphire crystals. Two-tone silver with applied pyramidal indexes, guilloché ring dials for the days, week, the leap year, 24 hours, retrograde month indicator, aperture for the moon phases, outer minute/seconds division with every fi ve red Arabic numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 97, First Quality, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 50 jewels, adjusted to 5 positions, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes With the Calibre 97, (originally introduced in 1997 at the World Presentation of Haute Horlogerie), Franck Muller is the fi rst watch brand to have perfected the bell chime in a wristwatch;
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-06-23
