Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 373

Girard -Perregaux White Gold World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "WW.TC", No. 202, Ref. 4980. Sold in December 2005. 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 an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty and instruction booklet.

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. Two-tone 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 red 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 white 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. The Property of a German Collector