Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 14

Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc World Time Chronograph", Ref. 4980. Produced circa 2000.Chronomètre RoyalVery fine, oversized, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman?s wristwatch with square buttonchronograph, registers, date and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. off-white withapplied white gold Arabic numerals and tritium-coated dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute reg-isters,surrounded with a black and white revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic numerals for the night/day hours, outermostrevolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date between 2 and 3. Tritium-coated "feuille" hands, blackarrow for the chronograph. The winding-crown at 9 activates the city disc backwards or forwards, the one at 3 is for time-setting andactivating the night/day division disc clockwise or counter-clockwise. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses-cotes" and "oeil-de-per-drix"decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balancespring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm.