Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 159

Graham 1695, "Chronograph Foudroyante", Neuchâtel-London - Greenwich. Made circa 2000. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button co-axial split-seconds chronograph, 1/8th seconds "foudroyante" and an 18K pink gold Graham buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Ivory-colored and black ?guilloché? black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, dart and round indexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials, aperture between the 11 and 12 to view the double crown wheel. Pink gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. FR 1695, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 40 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, the co-axial button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 16 mm.