Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 175

Chronograph Lightning Foudroyante Graham 1695, No. 068, Neuchâtel-London Greenwich. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 160 feet, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph with coaxial single button on the crown, 1/8 second "foudroyante,? and 18K pink gold Graham buckle. Accompanied by the original box and Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Ivory and guilloche black with applied luminous pink gold square and bâton indexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials, aperture between the 11 and 12 to view the double-crown wheel. Luminous pink gold 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 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.