Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 372

Girard-Perregaux Steel Retour en Vol Girard-Perregaux, "Chronographe Retour en Vol", case No. 7, Ref. 4958. Made circa 2002. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers, date, tachometer and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and booklets.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied faceted steel baton indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute register, outer tachometer scale with white Arabic numerals, outermost 1/5th second scale with red Arabic numerals, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel feuille hands. M. Cal. GP 3379, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-deperdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 12.5 mm Property of a German Collector