Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 49

GIRARD PERREGAUX REF. 4956 FORMULA 1 WORLD CHAMPION FERRARI STEEL Girard-Perregaux, "Formula 1-World Champion 2002", No. 192, Ref. 4956. Made in 2002. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by box, instraction and certificate.

Three-body, polished and brushed, case back with 7 screws, engraved with the Ferrari F1 image, concave lugs, screwed-down crown, sapphire crystal. Bi-color, carbon fiber and red with applied luminous baton indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer scale, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel baton hands. Cal. GP 3370, rhodium-plated, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.