Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 290

Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc World Time Chronograph", Ref. 4980. Produced circa 2000.Very fine, oversized, world time, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch withsquare button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, the winding-crown at 9 moves thecity disc backwards or forwards, the one at 3 is for setting the time and moving the night/day function backwards or forwards, sapphirecrystals. D. off-white with applied luminous dot indexes and a pink gold Arabic "12", auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by an off-white and black revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic numerals for the night/day hours,outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date. Luminous pink gold "Feuille" hands, bluedsteel for the chronograph hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straight linelever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm.