Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 140

?Tornado F 18? European Company Watch, "Tornado - Chrono Foudroyante - Panhard F 18". Made in 2002. Fine, oversized, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with foudroyante split-second rectangular button chronograph, registers and a stainless steel ECW buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, lapidated bezel, sides and lugs, case back with 4 screws and 1 nut, screwed-down crown, sapphire crystal. D. ?Guilloché? anthracite with applied dart indexes, subsidiary silver ring dials for the 1/8 seconds and the 30-minute registers. Luminous steel "dauphine" hands. M. rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 40 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, the co-axial button on the winding-crown is for the start-stop and returnto- zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 46 x 58 mm. Thickness 16 mm. To be sold without reserve