12,650 CHF
Graham 1695, "Chronograph Lightning Foudroyante" No. 076, Les Monts SA., Neuchâtel-London-Greenwich. Produced in the 1990s. Fine self-winding, water-resistant to 160 ft., 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 stainless steel Graham buckle. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with screws, rounded band, concave bezel, curved straight lugs. White and "guilloché" black with tritium-coated applied gold square and bâton indexes, subsidiary seconds and "foudroyante" dials, aperture between the 11 and 12 to view the double crown wheel. Tritium-coated pink gold "bâton" hands. 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 button 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. Height 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-10-24
