15,600 CHF
Girard-Perregaux Scuderia Ferrari - Foudroyante split platinum Girard-Perregaux, "Scuderia Ferrari - Chronographe à Rattrapante Foudroyante", No. 84/100, Ref. 9020. Made circa 2000. This watch is part of a limited edition of 100 pieces which started in 1999, to commemorate the “Scuderia Ferrari” (1929-1999). Very fine and rare, heavy, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with 1/8 seconds round-button split-seconds “foudroyante” chronograph, registers, tachometer and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Accompanied by fitted box and booklets. Three-body, solid, brushed, straight lugs, case back with 7 screws, engraved with "Scuderia Ferrari" dedication, domed sapphire crystal. Two-tone black with applied white gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, subsidiary dials for the flying seconds and 30-minute register, outer tachometer graduation, outermost 1/5th seconds scale. White gold feuille hands. Cal. GP E04C0, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14.5 mm. Notes What is a Foudroyante? A foudroyante (also foudroyante, diablotine, or flying seconds) is a hand on a graduated subsidiary dial of a chronograph that makes one rotation every seconds, pausing up to eight times to indicate quarters, fifths, or even eights of a second.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-05-08
