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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 43

White Gold World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc-World Time Chronograph", No. 274, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2003. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, user manual/guarantee and an extra 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent 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. Satiné gray with applied luminous white gold dot indexes and steel 12 Arabic numeral, 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, 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, selfcompensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.