Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Mar 10, 2011

LOT 135

Girard Perregaux, ?Olimpico? Girard Perregaux, ?Olimpico?, case No. 944777, Ref. 8846N. Made in the 1960s. Fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel doctor?s wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and pulsometer. Accompanied by a Girard Perregaux box.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, stepped bezel, screwed-down case back. D. Two-tone silver with applied steel square and baton indexes, luminous dots, subisidiary dials for the seconds, 30-minute and 12-hour registers, outer 1/5 second/minute divisions with every five minute radial Arabic numerals, outermost red pulsometer scale and blue tachometer scale. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 073, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration,17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 12 mm