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Hong Kong, Jun 08, 2008

LOT 342

BMW ? Oracle Racing Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc-World Time Chronograph?, No. 14/50, Ref. 49800. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples with home-time Switzerland, sold on August 22, 2006. Very fine, oversized, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee and booklets.

C. Three-body, brushed and polished, case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down winding crown at 9 to move the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. D. Anthracite with applied luminous dot indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer black and white revolving ring with painted Arabic 24 hour numerals for the dirurnal and nocturnal hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, Switzerland in red, inner minute track, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous steel feuille hands. M. Cal. 3387, 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. 43 mm. Thickness 13.5 mm.