Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 403

Girard-Perregaux Pink Gold ww.tc- World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph", No. 41, Ref. 4980. Sold in 2009. Very fine, large, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and warranty.

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 pink gold round indexes, white gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 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-deperdrix 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.