Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 211

Manufacture Girard-Perregaux, "Automatic", ?Vintage 1960?, No. 283, Ref. 2598. Made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, central progressive minute register hand and 24 hours indication.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, case back secured by six screws, lapidated bezel, curved lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 24 hours dials, outer minute/second track. Luminous ?épée? hands. M. Cal. 2280, rhodium-plated, ?fausses cotes? decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, index regulator, bi-directional winding, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 38 x 38 mm. Thickness 14 mm.