Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 214

Girard-Perregaux- World Time-Perpetual Calendar with Special order Dial Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Perpetual Calendar", No. 9, Ref. 90280. Made in 2007, returned to factory for a special-order dial with red highlighted world-city of Jerusalem in 2008. Very fine, probably unique, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold world-time wristwatch with perpetual calendar, two crowns, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux deployant buckle. Accompanied by a mains operated wooden Girard Perregaux automatic winding box, setting pin, instructions, winding box instructions and certificate of authenticity. To be sold without reserve

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. White with applied luminous pink gold round indexes, subsidiary dials for the day, the date and combined month with leap year, outer white and brown revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, lunar aperture, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations with Jerusalem highlighted in red. Luminous pink gold feuille hands. m. Cal. GP033Q0, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 26 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K pink gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 12.30 mm.