Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 189

Pink Gold, "World Time Chronograph" Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc-World Time Chronograph", No. 790, Ref. 4980. Sold on March 13, 2003. Very fine, oversized, world time, selfwinding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Girard- Perregaux buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back secured by 6 screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, screweddown winding-crown at 9 to move the city disc, at 3 for time setting and adjusting the night/day function. D. Offwhite, applied luminous dot indexes, pink gold Arabic numeral for the 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer offwhite and brown revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 locations, date aperture. Luminous pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" and "oeilde- perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.