Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 211

"Chronographe Foudroyante" Graham 1695, "Chronographe Foudroyante", Les Monts SA., Neuchâtel - London ? Greenwich, No 357. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 160 ft., stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button splitseconds chronograph, "foudroyante" at 1/8 second (the hand flies over 360 degrees in one second), and stainless steel Graham buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Black and "guilloché" silver with luminous applied steel indexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials. Luminous baton hands. M. Cal. FR 1695, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 40 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, the coaxial single 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 14 mm.