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New York, Nov 28, 2001

LOT 321

Girard-Perregaux, La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 48362. Produced in the 1930's.Fine and unusual, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with olive-shaped single button chronograph, register and pulsometer.

C. three-body, polished, concave lugs. D. two-tone silver with painted black Breguet numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations in blue Arabic numerals. " Baton" blued steel hands. M. Cal. 13 ''', rhodium-plated, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, the single olive-shaped button is for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph.Dial signed. Case numbered. Diam. 37 mm.