Inspired by the legacy of George Graham, our aim was to create contemporary wrist instruments with innovative and genuinely useful technical singularities. 

Our first achievement was a split-seconds chronograph with a foudroyante hand, enabling measurements to one-eighth of a second. This world first was introduced in 1998. We quickly realised, however, that accuracy was not solely a matter of display: the human reaction time when starting and stopping a chronograph could introduce variations of between 0.5 and 2 seconds. 

This led to our second major innovation — the thumb-operated chronograph lever. The thumb is the fastest finger of the hand, rather than the index finger traditionally used on chronographs. Thus, was born the Chronofighter®, inspired both by military aviation timepieces and by the very first chronograph system invented in 1710 by George Graham, who equipped a high-precision pendulum clock with a lever to start and stop precise astronomical timing measurements. 

The first Chronofighter® model was launched in 2001 and to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2026. At this special occasion, Graham 1695 decided to momentarily bring its real Swiss Franc base pricing back to its original positioning in 2001, as a thanking gift to our community, thus allowing prices in USD and in Euro kept with no increase. 

Graham 1695 then introduced its second iconic line, the Swordfish® in 2002, followed by the first Superlight® chronograph featuring moulded carbon components in 2004. We went on to develop major complications such as the King George® in 2003 — a four-hammer minute repeater with grande sonnerie and chronograph start-and-stop chimes — the Tourbillograph® in 2009, combining an automatic chronograph with a visible precision tourbillon, True Moon, and finally the celebrated Orrery® in 2012: a high-precision planetary mechanism with integrated equation of time correction and perpetual adjustments for the next 300 years. 

The future of Graham 1695 is exceptionally promising, with constantly evolving collections, the use of groundbreaking materials and the introduction of unexpected yet entirely logical functions — all intrinsically linked to the measurement of time. 

From iconic chronographs to advanced complications, Graham 1695 creates wrist instruments designed not merely to tell time — but to measure it with purpose. 

Welcome to a world were heritage fuels innovation. 

Eric Loth