Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 369

Pink Gold, World Time Chronograph Girard-Perregaux, "ww.tc-World Time Chronograph," No. 1021, Ref. 4980. Made circa 2002. Very fine, large, world-time, self-winding, water-resistant, center-seconds, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date, 24-hour day and night indication and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp.

USD 6,000 - 10,000

EUR 4,200 - 7,000 / CHF 6,500 - 11,000

Sold: USD 10,800

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with 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, sapphire crystals. D. Satiné bronze with applied luminous dot indexes, pink gold Arabic numeral for the 12, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer off-white and black revolving ring with painted Arabic numerals for 24 hours, outermost revolving disc bearing names of 24 world locations, aperture for the date between 1 & 2. Luminous pink gold feuille hands. M. 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, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 14 mm.

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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original