Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 21, 2003

LOT 145

Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'OrNo. 24". Produced in 1992.Extremely fine and important, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, three 18K pink gold bridges and an 18K yellow gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight and curved lugs, domed sapphire crystal. D. transparent, "Spade" blued steel hands. M. Cal. 9000, rhodium-plated, "guilloché", "fausses côtes" and " oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, three polished pink gold bridges over the "guilloché" silver ornamented barrel at 12, the 18K pink gold center wheel and the visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with its A-shaped carriage and the seconds hand at 6, 20 jewels, tourbillon carriage of the type designd by Ernest Guinand, lateral lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam.36 mm.