Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 244

GERALD GENTA REF. G 2989.7 GEFICA SAFARI CHRONOGRAPH BRASS STEEL Gérald Genta, Genève, Gefica Safari, case No. 47274, Ref. G 2989.7. Made in the 1980s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, brass and steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, day and date and a Gérald Genta double deployant clasp.

Three-body, brushed, Vendôme type lugs, bezel and band with double row of dots, screw-down case back, sapphire crystal. Mother of pearl with applied luminous round indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the day and date. Luminous gilt baton hands. Cal. 7750, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack feature.