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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 44

Pink Gold, World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc-World Time Chronograph", No. 1021, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2002. Very fine, large, world-time, self-winding, water-resistant, center-seconds, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a Girard-Perregaux box.

C. Three-body, solid, 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 bronze with applied luminous dot indexes, pink gold Arabic numeral for the 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer off-white and black revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous pink gold 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, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.