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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 327

Girard-Perregaux, Chaux-de-Fonds, No. 36664, made for English market, circa 1865.Rare and interesting, 18K gold hunting-cased "Ship Time" triple time zone watch.

C. four-body, "bassine et filets", engine turned covers, gold hinged cuvette with engine turned ring. D. white enamel, Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic markers, two subsidiary time zones at 10 ad 2 o'clock, subsidiary seconds. Elaborate blued steel and gilt skeletonized hands. M. 42 mm, (18'''), nickel 3/4-plate, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 15 jewels, lateral counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, diaond endstone.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 49 mm.