Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 472

GIRARD-PERREGAUX STEEL RETOUR EN VOL ? SPECIAL EDITION ? SCOZIA - ITALIA 2007 Girard-Perregaux, ?Chronographe Retour en Vol ? Serie Speciale?, Ref. 49580. Made as a special edition to celebrate the Scotland v Italy European Championship qualifying match, 17th November, 2007. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, registers, date, tachometer and a stainless steel Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded bezel, transparent case back underprinted with the Italian football shield and ?Scozia-Italia, 17 Novembre 2007?, with 6 screws, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied faceted steel baton indexes and Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute register, outer tachometer scale with white Arabic numerals, outermost 1/5th second scale with red Arabic numerals, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous steel feuille hands. M. Cal. GP 3379, 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. 40 mm. THICKNESS 12.5 mm.