Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
New York, Dec 07, 2011
LOT 92
GIRARD PERREGAUX TRIBUTE TO ENZO FERRARI NO. 1 PLATINUM THREE GOLDEN BRIDGES, TOURBILLON PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tribute to Enzo Ferrari Tourbillon," No. 1, Ref. 99190. Made in a limited edition of 349 examples, the World Premier of this watch was held in Shanghai on March 9, 2004. Extremely fine, rare and important, large, platinum, water resistant to 30 meters, wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator under three 18K pink gold bridges, perpetual calendar, round-button chronograph, registers, day and night and 24-hour indications, tachometer and an 18K white gold Girard- Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original display box with winder, Certificate of Authenticity and two folders with technical data and instructions for use.
USD 100,000 - 120,000
CHF 90,000 - 100,000 / EUR 70,000 - 85,000
C. Three-body, massive, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, curved lugs, transparent back with six screws, sapphire crystals. D. "Rainbow", matte black with luminous red-outlined Arabic numerals, outer tachometer scale, facsimile signature "Enzo Ferrari" at 12, subsidiary dials for the date and seconds, four year cycle and 30-minute register, days of the week and 12-hour register, day and night indication with 24-hours. Luminous white skeleton hour and minute hands, red chronograph hand. M. Cal. GP9982, guilloche and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 3 polished pink gold bridges, 37 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand, monometallic balance, self-compensating special alloy Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and case signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 17.5 mm.
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Girard-Perregaux for Ferrari Between 1994 and 2004, Girard-Perregaux and Ferrari were in partnership with a co-branding agreement which gave birth to an extraordinary collection of watches with chronographs and complications. The present watch, a tribute to Enzo Ferrari is one of the most remarkable pieces from this collection. The design proved to be one of the most successful watch movement designs ever. It has been used by Girard-Perregaux up to the present day. Their most prestigious watches, the 13??? wrist tourbillions use the same design. The simple and bold yet elegant layout of the ?three bridge? movement lends itself to the display of the tourbillon regulator. Pellaton, Grether and Guinand cages were used as well as Girard-Perregaux?s own cage. At the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889, Girard Perregaux received the highest of all awards, a Gold Medal for excellence, for his famed three-bridge Tourbillon. Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (1898 - 1988) Born in 1898 in Modena Italy, was the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari car manufacturer. His father, Alfredo, ran a metal business. When he was 10 his father took Ferrari and his brother Alfredo Jr. to an automobile race in Bologna, where he saw Vincenzo Lancia battle Felice Nazarro in the 1908 Circuit di Bologna. After attending a number of other races he decided that he too wanted to become a racing car driver. In 1916 tragedy struck his family, with the death of his father and brother in one year. After the war he took up racing and in 1919 he fi nished ninth at the Targa Florio. In 1929 Ferrari started his own fi rm, Scuderia Ferrari. He was sponsored in this enterprise by the Ferrara-based Caniano brothers, Augusto and Alfredo, heirs to a textile fortune. Ferrari remained managing director of his fi rm until 1971. Despite stepping down he remained an infl uence over the fi rm until his death in 1988.
Girard-Perregaux, ?Trois Ponts d?Or? (Three Gold Bridges) On March 25, 1884, a patent (No. 14919) was fi led in the USA patent offi ce stating: ?Be it known that I, Girard Perregaux of Chaux-de-Fonds, Republic of Switzerland, have invented and produced a new and original Design for a Watch- Movement, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description: ?In a watch movement the design for a bridge, consisting a bridge having a central annular portion, spread out ends and bar-like portions between the said annular portions and ends, as shown??.