$46,000
"Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'Or” Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, "Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'Or Automatique", No. 10, Ref. 9925. Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine and important, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator under three 18K pink gold bridges and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, case back with 6 screws, straight and curved lugs, sapphire crystal. Pink gold "dauphine” hands. Cal. 9600, rhodium-plated, "guilloché", "fausses côtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 3 polished pink gold bridges, 20 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator, tourbillon carriage of the type designed by Ernest Guinand, monometallic balance adjusted to 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam.36 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Notes Girard-Perregaux, “Trois Ponts d’Or“ On March 25, 1884 a patent (No. 14919) was filed in the USA patent office 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, spreadout ends and bar-like portions between the said annular portions and ends, as shown…” The design prove
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-28
