Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 295

GIRARD-PERREGAUX ? PIECE UNIQUE - BLACK SHADOW CERAMIC AND TITANIUM WORLD TIME FOR ONLY WATCH 2009 ? NO. 1/1 Girard-Perregaux, No. Ce/TI No. 1/1, Ref. 49820. Made as a unique piece for the Only Watch charity auction, Monaco, 2009. Very fine and unique, large, world time, self-winding, waterresistant, ceramic and titanium black coated wristwatch with square button fly-back chronograph, registers, date, and Girard- Perregaux rubber strap with titanium double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted winding carrousel box, tools and Certificate of Authenticity.

C. Three-body, brushed, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screw-down crowns, the winding crown at 9 moves the city disc backwards or forwards, at 3 for setting the time and moving the night/ day function backwards or forwards, sapphire crystals. D. Black with luminous indexes and Arabic 12 numeral, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by a red and green revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic numerals for the night/ day hours, outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, Monaco as the home city, aperture for the date between 1 and 2. Luminous white baton hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 43 mm. THICKNESS 13.4 mm