Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 249

GIRARD-PERREGAUX PINK GOLD WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph", No. 811, Ref. 49805. Sold in October 2008. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, user manual and guarantee (now void).

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. Bicolor white and black with applied luminous round pink gold indexes, white gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer white 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 pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism.