Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 09, 2014

LOT 91

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 4980 WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH TITANIUM Girard-Perregaux, World Time Chronograph, No. 839, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2005. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and a Girard Perregaux titanium deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and booklet.

USD 4,000 - 6,000

HKD 31,000 - 47,000 / CHF 3,500 - 5,300

Sold: USD 6,875

Three-body, solid, 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. Black with applied luminous round white gold 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 & 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.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.