Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 447

GIRARD-PERREGAUX, REF. 49805, F.T.C., WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH, TITANIUM Girard-Perregaux, Swiss, No.183, ?WW.TC?, Hours of the world and chronograph, Ref. 49805. Made circa 2008. Fine, oversized, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a titanium Girard-Perregaux double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the Girard-Perregaux box.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, screwed-down winding crown at 9 to move the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. D. Black with painted luminous baton indexes and luminous Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer blue and white revolving ring with painted Arabic 24 hour numerals, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, inner minute track, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous lozenge hands. M. Cal. GP033C0, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating fl at balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm