Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 46

GIRARD PERREGAUX BLACK SHADOW CERAMI

Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw-down crowns, the winding crown at 9 moves the city disc backwards or forwards, at 3 for setting the time and moving the night/ day function backwards or forwards, sapphire crystals. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by a white and black revolving ring with contrasting painted 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 baton 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. Dial, case and movement signed.