Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 80

Chronoswiss, "Pathos", Chronographe Rattrapante, No. PT 04, Ref. CH 7323 S. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, skeletonized, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with off-center hours and minutes, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers and a platinum Chronoswiss buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, reeded bezel and back edge, screwed-down transparent case back, straight lugs, gold screwed bars. 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 split-seconds chronograph hand.Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 38 mm.