Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 250

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 49800 FERRARI F1 053 WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH TITANIUM Girard-Perregaux, F1 053 Ferrari World Time Chronograph, No. Ti 206, Ref. 49800. Made in a limited edition for Ferrari, circa 2005. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a Girard-Perregaux titanium double deployant clasp.

Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with Ferrari logo and 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw-down crowns, the crown at 9 moves the city disc, the one at 3 is for setting the time and moving the night/day function, sapphire crystals. Carbon fiber with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by a white and red revolving ring with contrasting Arabic numerals for the night/day hours, outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date between 1 and 2. Luminous white epee and arrow 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.