Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 251

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 49860 WORLD TIME DIAMOND BEZEL AND CASE, WHITE GOLD Girard-Perregaux, World Time, No. OG 49, Ref. 49860. Sold in August 2008. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, diamond-set 18K white gold wristwatch with mother-of-pearl dial, two crowns, 24-hour day and night power reserve indication and an 18k white gold Girard Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and guarantee card.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, diamond-set case and lugs (274 diamonds), transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel with 54 diamonds (1.95 ct), concave lugs, diamond-set screw- down winding crown at 9 to rotate the city disc, diamond set crown at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. Mother-of-pearl with applied diamond indexes, Arabic 3 and 12, outer silver and revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations, power reserve indication at 5, constant seconds at 9. Skeletonized steel feuille hands. Cal. 33G0.9, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor, hack mechanism.