Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 80

GIRARD PERREGAUX TOURBILLON WITH THREE GOLD BRIDGES PINK GOLD Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tourbillon Under Three Gold Bridges," No.72. Production of this reference started in 1999. Made circa 2007. Very fine, rare and important, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator under three 18K pink gold bridges and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box and two books.

Three-body, solid, polished, triangular lugs, case back with 6 screws and engraved: "Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'or, No. 72," domed sapphire crystal. Transparent, outer inclined gold rim with black radial Roman numerals and minute track. Blued steel feuille minute and spade hour hands. Cal. GP 9910, skeletonized, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, on the dial side three polished 18K pink gold bridges over the guilloché silver ornamented barrel at 12, over the gold center wheel and at 6 over the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with its A-shaped carriage and the seconds hand, engraved "No. 72," 20 jewels, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand with lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.