Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 195

Lunar Chronograph Chronoswiss, ?Lunar Chronograph,? Ref. CH 7522. Made in the late 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, moon phases and a stainless steel Chronoswiss deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, guarantee and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down transparent case back, ribbed front and back bezels, straight lugs with gold-screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the moon phases at 3, outer 1/5th seconds and date graduations. Blued steel Breguet hands, black arrow for the date. M. Cal. C 741, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 14 mm