Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 42

"Pathos" Chronoswiss, "Pathos", Chronographe Rattrapante No. 307, Ref. CH 7321. Made in a limited number in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Chronoswiss buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, reeded bezel and back edge, straight lugs, gold screwed bars, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized solid silver, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary ring dials for the hours and minutes in painted radial Roman numerals at 3, the seconds at 9, 12-hour register at 6 and 30-minute register at 12. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. C . 732S, skeletonized, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, skeletonized rotor, the yellow gold push-button at 10 is for the start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the pink gold split-seconds chronograph hand. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 16 mm.