Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 90

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 4980 WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph," No. 9, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2002. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day & night indication and an 18K yellow gold Girard- Perregaux buckle.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down winding crown at 9 to rotate the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. Cream with applied luminous round yellow gold indexes, Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer cream and black 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 yellow 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, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism.