The Collection of a European Nobleman

Geneva, May 11, 2008

LOT 597

Retour en Vol Girard-Perregaux, "Chronographe Retour en Vol", case No. 354, Ref. 4958. Made circa 2002. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers, date, tachometer and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux buckle. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied faceted steel baton indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute register, outer tachometer graduation with white Arabic numerals, outermost 1/5th second scale with red Arabic numerals, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel feuille hands. M. Cal. GP 3379, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm.