2,820,000 HKD
Caliber 97, Grande et Petite Sonnerie Minute-Repeater, Perpetual Calendar Franck Muller, Geneve, "Grande et Petite Sonnerie, Minute-Repeater - Perpetual Calendar. ” Made in 1997. Unique, fine and rare, astronomic, grande et petite sonnerie minute-repeating, platinum and diamond-set wristwatch with retrograde perpetual calendar, equation of time, moon phases and 24 hour display and a platinum and diamonds Franck Muller buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, brushed, reeded band with diamonds, repeater slide on the band, selection for the Grande, Petite, Silence at 2, transparent case back, flexible lugs set with diamonds, 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 five 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 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 first watch brand to have perfected the bell chime in a wristwatch; a
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-27
