Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 19, 2012

LOT 135

CHRONOSWISS REF. CH 7323 PATHOS SKELETON RATTRAPANTE STEEL Chronoswiss, Pathos, No. 418, Ref. CH 7323. Made circa 2004. Very fine and rare, 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 deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, reeded bezel and back edge, screw-down transparent case back, straight lugs, screw bars, sapphire crystals. D. Skeletonized, 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 fl at 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 split seconds chronograph hand. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 15 mm.