Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 287

?World Time? Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc, World Time Chronograph", No 1126, Ref. 4980. Produced circa 2000. Very fine, oversized, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 6screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw down crowns, the winding-crown at 9 moves the city disc backwards or forwards, the one at 3 is for setting the time and moving the night/day function backwards or forwards, sapphire crystals. D. Brown with applied luminous dot indexes and a pink gold Arabic "12", subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by an off-white and black revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic numerals for the night/day hours, outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.