Chronographe à Rattrapante Girard-Perregaux

Chronographe à Rattrapante Girard-Perregaux, "Chronographe à Rattrapante”, No. 1. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round-button split-seconds chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 8 screws, domed sapphire crystal. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute registers. Luminous baton hands. Cal. 8290, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness: 14.5 mm.