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Dandy style, dashing suit and elegant shoes. Dressed to kill, I stride arriving early. My precious invitation in hand, I am so excited about attending the worldwide premiere. I have to hurry, a crowd is already gathering in front of the Saatchi Gallery, London. I elbow my way through the throng to the entrance. I cannot get over it! The place is wonderful. Colourful spots shed light on the red carpet. At the end, the exhibition room is waiting for the prestigious show to begin. The camera flashes already crackle. The crowd scrambles to get closer to the catwalk. The atmosphere is highly-charged and the room jam-packed. The music starts, the curtains open. The show is on.


The first male model on the podium is dressed in black, as the second and the third. The crowd is frozen with fear. What is going on? Rainbows are coming from their wrists. They are wearing iridescent-colored watches. The same watches but not one has the same colour. Green, purple, blue, pink, it is impossible to state the exact colour. Everybody is captivated. The onlookers gaze at the change of colours as the model walks. Never seen before. That’s the Swordfish Booster Iris. That’s the GRAHAM view of style.

The multitude of colours is hypnotic. The iridescence of the Swordfish Booster Iris, similar to the most beautiful natural wonders, is eye-catching. Do you know what Iris means in Latin? Rainbow.

This rainbow effect is not due to pigment but interferences of light. It means that light waves interfere with one another on a surface refracting parts of the spectrum which create the iridescent colors. You have probably already seen it in a soap bubble or in an oil stain on a wet pavement but it results from a high-technological process.

The change of colours is also due to the extremely complex composition of the layers’ oxide. The steel case and components have been placed in big vacuums producing plasma reaction.

This unique coating contains multi-layered structures that provide thin-film interference. The thickness across the surface causes changes of colours in reflected light. Iridescence adds a new dimension to “surface”.

The nanometer-scale coating is a very fine process which has been developed exclusively for GRAHAM and makes every watch a piece of art.

SWORDFISH BOOSTER IRIS
Ref. 2SWBB.B39L

Functions: Chronograph (seconds, 30 minutes and 12 hours counter)
Hours, minutes, seconds
Calibre: Calibre G1710, automatic bi-compax chronograph, 28'800 A/h (4 Hz), Incabloc shock absorber
34 jewels
Power reserve: 48 hours

Case: 48 mm steel case with black PVD coating and interferential substrate (iridescent effect) with two portholes at 3 and 9 o'clock
Steel right hand control pushers with "Clous de Paris" high grip pattern
Steel bezel with black PVD coating and interferential substrate (iridescent effect)
Flat sapphire crystal, anti-reflective coating
See-through sapphire crystal case back, screwed-down case back

Water resistance: 330 feet / 100 m
Dial: Black mother-of-pearl dial. Hours and minutes black snailed counters. Counters are magnified by 15%.
Skeleton central hands with black tip, black numerals and indexes, black seconds hand, grey hours, minutes counters' and chrono hands
Strap: Integrated green croco
Black ceramic pin buckle
Price: 15'000 CHF