Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 08, 2011

LOT 86

Girard Perregaux - Steel - Split-Seconds Chrono for Ferrari  Girard-Perregaux, "Chronographe à Rattrapante,? No. 25, Ref. 9015. Made especially for Ferrari in a limited edition commemorating Michael Schumacher?s victory in the Belgium Grand Prix on August 25th, 1996. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph and registers.

C. Three-body, polished, case back with eight screws engraved with the Ferrari logo and a dedication, sapphire crystal. D. Silver with applied steel baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, below the 12 the Ferrari logo and at 6 blue steering wheel logo, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds red Arabic markers. Steel dauphine hands. M. Cal. 8290, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic ba-lance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.