Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 216

Girard-Perregaux Ref. 4980 - White Gold - World Time - Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph," No. 62, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2007. Very fine, large, world-time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and a Girard-Perregaux rubber bracelet with stainless steel deployant clasp.

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 white and black with applied luminous white gold round indexes, white gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer white and black revolving 24-hour ring, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous white gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeilde- perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.