Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 114

Girard-Perregaux, "Vintage, 1945, Golden Bridge Tourbillon Automatic", No. 4 or. Produced circa 2000. Very fine and rare, square, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with four screws, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied gold Arabic 3,9 and 12, outer minute track, aperture for the tourbillon regulator under an 18K pink gold bridge at 6, carrying the subsidiary seconds hand. Pink gold ?dauphine? hands. M. Cal. 9610c, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 30 jewels, lateral lever escapement in one-minute tourbillon regulator with A-shaped carriage of the type desined by Ernest Guinand, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, platinum micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed, numbered on the case and movement.