Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 84

GIRARD-PERREGAUX, REF. 49805 WW.TC WORLD TIME CHRONOGRAPH TITANIUM Girard-Perregaux, Swiss, No.93, "WW.TC", Hours of the world and chronograph, Ref. 49805. Made circa 2005. Fine, oversized, world time, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and a titanium Girard-Perregaux double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original Girard-Perregaux box, guarantee, hang tag and booklets.

Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, rounded bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, screwed-down winding crown at 9 to move the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function, sapphire crystals. Black with painted luminous baton indexes and luminous Arabic 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer blue and red revolving ring with painted Arabic 24 hour numerals, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, inner minute track, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous arrow and epee hands. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism.