Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 293

Girard-Perregaux Single Button Chrono Girard-Perregaux, La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 358487. Made in the 1930's. Fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with single button on the crown chronograph and register.

C. Four-body, polished, central wire lugs, gold cuvette engraved: Hors Concours Paris 1900 (with 6 medals). D. White enamel with painted black Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 13 ''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, the single button on the crown is for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13 mm.