Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 73

Graham 1695, "Chronograph Foudroyante", Les Monts SA., Neuchâtel - London - Greenwich. Produced in the 1990's.Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 160 ft., stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, "foudroyante" at 1/8 second (the hand flies over 360 degrees in one second), and stainless steel Graham buckle. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box.

C .three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. black and "guilloché" silver with tritium-coated applied steel indexes, auxiliary seconds and "foudroyante" dials. "Bâton" tritium-coated steel hands. M. Cal. FR 1695, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 40 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, the coaxial single btton on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 41 mm.