Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 204

Graham 1695, "Chronograph Light-ning Foudroyante" No. 076, Neuchâtel-London Greenwich. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 160 feet, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph and coaxial single button on the crown for split- seconds, 1/8 second "foudroyante,? and 18K pink gold Graham buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with6 screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straightlugs, sapphire crystal. D. Ivory-colored and "guilloché"black with tritium coated applied gold square and bâtonindexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials,aperture between the 11 and 12 to view the doublecrown wheel. Tritium coated pink gold "bâton" hands.M. Cal. FR 1695, rhodium plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" deco-ration,40 jewels, straight line lever escapement,monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensatingflat balance-spring, the coaxial button on the winding-crownis for start-stop and return to zero functions of thesplit-seconds chronograph.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.