Important Watches Collector's Wristwa...

The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Feb 20, 2005

LOT 123

Girard-Perregaux, "World Time Chronograph", Ref. 4980. Made in 2000. Very fine, oversized, world time, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold deployant buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded bezel, concave lugs, winding-crown at 9 to movethe city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function. D. Off-white, applied luminous dot indexes,pink gold Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer off-white and blackrevolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 cities,date aperture. Luminous pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber,self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 9 mm.