Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014
GIRARD PERREGAUX REF. 99522 UNIQUE PIECE MINUTE REPEATER WHITE GOLD Girard-Perregaux, "Minute Repeater unique piece" No. 1/1, Ref. 99522. Made circa 2000s. Extremely fine, very rare and important, water-resistance, hand-winding, mi-nute-repeating white gold wristwatch with an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux de-ployant clasp.Accompanied by a original fitted box, certificate of origin, the key for the fitted box, instruction booklet, booklet for GP complications.
Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, concave and curved lugs, transparent case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystals. Skeletonized with applied white gold Arabic numerals at 3, 6, 12 , outer chapter minute track, subsidiary silver ring dials for seconds, skeletonized white gold feuille hands. Cal. GPM08800 circular-grained main plate, sand-blasted bridges, chamfered and polished by hand, hand-polished jewels sinks and screws, steel parts chamfered and mirror polished by hand, gold chatons secured by blued screws, satin finished " jewels plate" mirror polished hammers, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 34 jewels, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs with 2 hammers by activating slide on the band.
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Case: 1-8 |
As new Slightly scratched |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1 |
As new |