Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 25

Girard-Perregaux,"Chronographe à Rattrapante", No. 1. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 atm., 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph and registers, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K yellow gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, case-back with 6 screws, concave bezel, curved lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with tritium-coated Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Tritium-coated "baton" hands. M. Cal. 8290, rhodium-plated, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance-spring, the button at 8 is to start and reunite the split-seconds hand.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 38 mm.