Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 27, 2011

LOT 69

Girard Perregaux Steel Chrono Girard Perregaux, case No. 65580116, Ref. 919228. Made in the 1960s. Fine water-resistant stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter. Accompanied by a Girard Perregaux box.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, inverted bezel, screwed-down case back. D. Silver with applied gilt triangular indexes, subisidiary dials for the seconds, and 45-minute register, outer 1/5 second/minute divisions with every five minute radial Arabic numerals, outermost blu tachometer scale and black telemeter scale. Gilt dauphine hands. M. 13''', 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.