Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 141

"Chronograph Foudroyante" Graham 1695, "Chronograph Foudroyante", Neuchâtel - London ? Greenwich. Made circa 2000. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button co-axial split-seconds chronograph, 1/8th seconds "foudroyante" and an 18K pink gold Graham buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs, case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Ivory-colored and "guilloché" black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, dart and round indexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials, aperture between the 11 and 12 to view the double crown wheel. Pink gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. FR 1695, rhodium-plated, "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 40 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, the co-axial button on the windingcrown is for the start-stop and return-to-zero functions of the split-seconds chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness: 16 mm.