Important Watches Collector's Wristwa...

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LOT 125

Girard-Perregaux, World Time Chronograph", Ref. 4980. Made in 2000. Very fine, oversized, world time, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium gentleman's wrist-watch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a titanium Girard-Perregaux bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, brushed, transparent case back, rounded bezel, concave lugs, the winding-crown at 9 to move thecity disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function. D. Black with applied luminous dot indexes,steel Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer white and black revolvingring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 cities, dateaperture for the date. Luminous steel "Feuille" hands, steel for the chronograph hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallicbalance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 9 mm.Approx. overall length 230 mm.