Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 120

Graham - Pink Gold ?Tourbillograph? Graham, ?Tourbillograph, Automatic,? No. 21/50. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2009. Fine and unusual, large, self-winding, water resistant, 18K pink gold left-handed wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, chronograph, registers and an 18K pink gold Graham buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back secured with 8 screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, winding crown with rubber tip, chronograph buttons on the left with start/stop functions activated by a trigger, return-to-zero by a square button at 10, sapphire crystals. d. Black with applied pink gold indexes and luminous dots, outer minute division with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the tourbillon cage at 4 under a pink gold bridge, subsidiary seconds hand on the tourbillon shaft. Luminous pink gold skeletonized epee hands. m. Cal. G 1710, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with 2 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm. Thickness 17 mm.