Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 419

GIRARD PERREGAUX REF. 99522 UNIQUE PIECE MINUTE REPEATER REGULATOR DIAL WHITE GOLD Girard-Perregaux, "Minute Repeater unique piece" ,OG No. 1/1, Ref. 99522. Made circa 2000s. Extremely fine, very rare and important, water-resistance, hand-winding, minute-repeating white gold wristwatch with regulator dial and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant 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 off-center silver hour indication with roman numerals, outer chapter minute track, subsidiary silver ring dials for seconds, blued steel 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.