Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 395

Chronoswiss Pathos Chronoswiss, ?Chronograph Rattrapante?, No. 461, case No. 5 0922, Ref. CH 7320. Made circa 2004. Very fine, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with off-center hours and minutes, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers and a stainless steel Chronoswiss buckle. Accompanied by the original box and Certificate of Authenticity.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, reeded bezel and back edge, screwed-down transparent case back, straight lugs, screw bars, 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. 732, skeletonized, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, the gold push-button at 10 is for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph hand. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.