Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 149

"Chronographe à Rattrapante? Manufacture Girard-Perregaux, "Chronographe à Rattrapante Automatique", Ref. 9012. Made in the 1990's. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button split seconds chronograph, register and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, case back secured by five screws, lapidated bezel, curved lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Beige with applied white gold Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30 minute register dials, outer chronograph scale. White gold ?Dauphine? hands. M. Cal. 8290, rhodiumplated, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, index regulator, bi-directional winding, the coaxial button on the winding-crown is to start and reunite the splitseconds hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 50 mm. Thickness 15 mm.