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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 228

Aluminum and Titanium ?World Time? F1 025 - Maranello Girard-Perregaux, ?F1 025 Maranello World Time Chronograph", No. Ti 212, Ref. 49800. No. 55 of a limited edition made for Ferrari, circa 2005. Very fine, large, world time, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, and Girard-Perregaux rubber strap with titanium double deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with Ferrari logo, rounded bezel, concave lugs, 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. Black with applied luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, surrounded by a white and red 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 white "baton" and "arrow" hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.