Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 536

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 49805 F.T.C. WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH STEEL Girard-Perregaux, Swiss, No. 891, Hours of the world and chronograph, Ref. 49805. Sold on December 1st, 2012. Fine, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, day and night indication and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux bracelet and double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the guarantee card and instruction booklet.

Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, screw-down winding crown at 9 to move the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. Matte silver and grey with applied luminous dot indexes and steel Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer white and gray revolving ring with painted Arabic 24 hour numerals, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, inner minute track, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous steel feuille hands. Cal. GP033C0, 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.