Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 100

GIRARD PERREAGAUX WW.TC PLATINUM Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph", No. 57, Ref. 4980. Made in the 2000s. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a box, warranty card and instruction booklet.

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. Two-tone black with applied luminous white gold round indexes, white gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer white and red 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-deperdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism.