Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 133

GIRARD-PERREGAUX VINTAGE 1945 XXL TOURBILLON MAGISTRAL SONNERIE AU PASSAGE PLATINUM Girard-Perregaux , No. 7, Ref. 9971. Made in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, rectangular curved, manual winding, Platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator under one 18K pink gold bridge, sonnerie, 110 hour power reserve, retrograde date indicator and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of authenticity and booklets.

USD 100,000 - 150,000

HKD 780,000 - 1,160,000 / CHF 97,000 - 145,000

Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, triangular lugs, push-buttons at 2 for silent or strike, push and at 10 for the date correction, "bombé" sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied white gold dart indexes, at 6 a polished 18K pink gold bridge over the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with its "A"-shaped carriage and the blued steel second hand, power reserve and sector for the retrograde date indicator. White gold "dauphine " hands. Cal. 9700, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.


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Grade:
Case: 1

As new

Movement: 1

As new

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and case signed. DIM. 37 x 38. THICKNESS 15 mm. Property of a Distinguished Gentleman