Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Apr 28, 2019

LOT 440

GIRARD-PERREGAUX POCKET CHRONOMETER WITH OBSERVATORY BULLETIN, PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT, SPECIAL BALANCE AND OVERBANKING CYLINDRICAL HAIRSPRING; 18K PINK GOLD

HKD 78,000 - 93,000

CHF 9,900 - 11,850 / USD 10,000 - 12,000

"Chronomètre bascule, Spiral Cylindrique à Renversement" 18K pink gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, heavy pocket chronometer, with subsidiary seconds at 6, made for the Spanish or South-American market. Silver stamped satiné dial with Roman numerals; the centre and the rim with varicoloured gold scrolled floral decoration. Cover and case-back engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with stylized foliage and geometric patterns, masks and grotesques, and, in the centre of the cover an escutcheon


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Girard-Perregaux

Model "Chronomètre bascule, Spiral Cylindrique à Renversement"

Year circa 1880

Movement No. 79 909

Calibre  20''', nickel-plated, with going barrel, gold screwedchatons (setting), pivoted detent escapement, socalled à bascule, compensated crank balance with gold and platinum poising screws and blued steel cylindrical hairspring with terminal curves, "à renversement" (to prevent overbanking)

Case No. 22 244

Material 18K pink gold

Caliber 20''', nickel-plated, with going barrel, gold screwedchatons (setting), pivoted detent escapement, socalled à bascule, compensated crank balance with gold and platinum poising screws and blued steel cylindrical hairspring with terminal curves, "à renversement" (to prevent overbanking)

Dimensions Ø 57.5 mm.

Signature dial, case and movement

Notes

Constant Girard (1825-1903) who changed his name to Girard-Perregaux after marrying Marie Perregaux, the daughter of a well-known chronometer maker, established his reputation as a maker of precision watches, including them with the famous. The company did business first with Peru and Chile, and then with Argentina.