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New York, Oct 17, 2008

LOT 308

World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, World Time Chronograph," No. 479, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2003. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, titaniumwristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and titanium Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. Three-body, brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screweddown winding crown at 9 to rotate the world disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied luminous round steel indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer off-white revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, concentric 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 14 mm.