$164,500
Franck Muller, Geneve, "Tourbillon – Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar - Equation of Time,” No. 00, Ref. RMQPTR. Made in the 2000s. Extremely fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman’s wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar, equation of time and moon phases, and an 18K pink gold Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, setting pin and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, straight and rounded lugs, sapphire crystals. Satiné silverwith applied blued steel pyramid indexes on an outer plain reserve, “guilloché” ring dials for the days, week, theleap year, 24 hours, at 12 sector for the equation of time, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel “spade" hands. Cal. 14’’’, hand-engraved, gold plated, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulatorwith A-shaped steel frame under a polished steel bridge, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguetbalance-spring, “wolf’s teeth” winding wheels.Dial and movement signed, movement also engraved “First Quality.”Diam. 37 mm. Thickness: 13 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-03-23
