Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 252

GIRARD-PERREGAUX REF. 49860 WORLD TIME DIAMOND AND STEEL Girard-Perregaux, World Time, No. 332, Ref. 49860. Sold in September 2008. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, steel wristwatch with two crowns, 24-hour day and night power reserve indication and a steel Girard Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee card(blank), certificate, instruction booklet

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel with 54 diamonds, concave lugs, screw- down winding crown at 9 to rotate the city disc, 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 pink 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.