Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 170

Girard-Perregaux, No. 1 Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tourbillon sous trois ponts d?or Chronographe", No. 1. Made in 1996, sold on September 25th, 1996. Extremely fine and important, water-resistant, large, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator under three 18K pink gold bridges and roundbutton chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and a fitted box.

HKD 330,000 - 450,000

USD 42,000 - 58,000 / EUR 35,000 - 47,000

Sold: HKD 354,000

C. Three-body, massive, polished and brushed, inclined and stepped bezel, curved lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals secured by six screws. D. Off-white with applied large yellow gold Breguet numerals, outer 1/5th second and minute division, subsidiary dials for the second, 30-minute and 12-hour registers. Luminous yellow gold feuille hands. M. Cal. GP9981, 12 3/4''', guilloché and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 3 polished pink gold bridges, 37 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand, monometallic balance, self-compensating special alloy Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 15.5 mm.


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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

Girard-Perregaux, ?Trois Ponts d?Or? On March 25, 1884, a patent (No. 14919) was filed in the USA patent office stating: ?Be it known that I, Girard Perregaux of Chaux-de- Fonds, Republic of Switzerland, have invented and produced a new and original Design for a Watch- Movement, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description: ?In a watch movement the design for a bridge, consisting a bridge having a central annular portion, spread-out ends and bar-like portions between the said annular portions and ends, as shown??.