Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 39

Chronographe à Rattrapante Girard-Perregaux, No. 25, Ref. 90100. Made circa 1994. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K pink gold Girard- Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, concave bezel, curved lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. Guilloche silver with applied pink gold radial Breguet numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 8290, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. The pushbutton at 8 is to start and reunite the split-seconds hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.