Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 48

Girard-Perregaux, Ferrari F1 053-Maranello Aluminium and Titanium World Time Girard-Perregaux, ?F1 053 Ferrari Maranello World Time Chronograph", No. TI 56, Ref. 49800. Made in a limited edition for Ferrari, circa 2005. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, aluminium and titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, and Girard-Perregaux rubber strap with titanium double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, transparent case back with Ferrari logo and 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw-down crowns, the winding crown at 9 moves the city disc backwards or forwards, at 3 for setting the time and moving the night/day function backwards or forwards, sapphire crystals. D. Carbon fiber with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by a white and red revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic numerals for the night/day hours, outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date between 1 and 2. Luminous white baton and arrow hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix 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.