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

LOT 80

Girard-Perregaux, Ref. 4956, No. 41/100. Produced in a limited series of 100 examples in the late 1990's.Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer and a stainless steel Girard Perregaux bracelet.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, back with screws rounded lugs, sapphire crystal. D. black with a checker motif, steel Arabic numerals and indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. "Moderne" luminous white hands. M. Cal. 2280, rhodium-plated, 57 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 40 mm.