Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 10, 2013

LOT 211

GIRARD-PERREGAUX MEDICAL MONOPOUSSIER STEEL Girard-Perregaux, La Chaux-de-Fonds, case No. 29372. Made in the 1930s. Fine and unusual, stainless steel Staybrite wristwatch with olive-shaped single button chronograph, register, pulsometer and tachometer. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, polished, straight lugs. D. Pink with painted black Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track and pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations in Arabic numerals, concentric spiral tachometer scale. Blued steel Breguet 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, case and movement signed. DIAM. 35 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.