Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 34

Chronoswiss Platinum Skeleton ?Pathos? Chronoswiss, Chronograph Rattrapante, No. PT 04, Ref. CH 7320. Made in a limited edition of 99 pieces in 2004. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with off-center hours and minutes, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers and a platinum Chronoswiss buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, reeded bezel and back edge, screwed-down transparent case back, straight lugs, gold screwed 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. 7750, skeletonized, rhodium-plated, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, skeletonized platinum rotor, the pink gold push-button at 10 is for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the pink gold splitseconds chronograph hand. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.