Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 10, 2010

LOT 285

Girard-Perregaux ? Pink Gold - ww.tc- Financial - World Time - Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph," No. 399, Ref. 49805. Made in 2007, sold April 15th, 2008. Very fine, large, world-time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee card and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down winding crown at 9 to rotate the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolor copper and silver with applied luminous pink gold round indexes, pink gold Arabic 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, selfcompensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.