Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, May 08, 2010

LOT 54

Girard-Perregaux Scuderia Ferrari - Foudroyante split platinum Girard-Perregaux, "Scuderia Ferrari - Chronographe à Rattrapante Foudroyante", No. 84/100, Ref. 9020. Made circa 2000. This watch is part of a limited edition of 100 pieces which started in 1999, to commemorate the ?Scuderia Ferrari? (1929-1999). Very fine and rare, heavy, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with 1/8 seconds round-button split-seconds ?foudroyante? chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and booklets.

CHF 12,000 - 17,000

USD 11,000 - 16,000 / EUR 8,000 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 15,600

C. Three-body, solid, brushed, straight lugs, case back with 7 screws, engraved with "Scuderia Ferrari" dedication, domed sapphire crystal. D. Two-tone black with applied white gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, subsidiary dials for the flying seconds and 30-minute register, outer tachometer graduation, outermost 1/5th seconds scale. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. GP E04C0, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 1*

As new

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

What is a Foudroyante? A foudroyante (also foudroyante, diablotine, or flying seconds) is a hand on a graduated subsidiary dial of a chronograph that makes one rotation every seconds, pausing up to eight times to indicate quarters, fifths, or even eights of a second.