Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 223

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 4980 WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH WHITE GOLD Girard-Perregaux, World Time Chronograph, No. 49, Ref. 4980. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, white gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and a white gold Girard Perregaux buckle.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw-down winding crown at 9 to rotate the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. White with applied luminous white gold round indexes, Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer black and white revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations, aperture for the date between 1 and 2. Luminous white gold feuille hands. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed.