Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 90

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 49805 WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph," No. 261, Ref. 49805. Made circa 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 and user manual.

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 champagne with applied luminous round pink gold indexes and gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 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, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism.