Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 117

Girard-Perregaux,La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'Or No.1" Production of this reference started in 1999.Extremely fine, rare and important, small, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with one minute tourbillon regulator under three pink golden bridges and an 18K yellow gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C .three-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight and curved lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. transparent, domed sapphire crystal, "Feuille" blued steel hands. M. Cal. 9700, "guilloché", rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and " ?il-de-perdrix" decoration, three polished pink gold bridges over the "guilloché" silver ornamented barrel at 12 o'clock, the 18K pink gold center wheel and at 6 o'clock the visible one minute tourbillon regulator with its A-shaped carriage and the seconds hand, engraved"No. 1", 20 jewels, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand,with lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam.36 mm.