69,000 HKD
“World Time” Girard-Perregaux, "ww. tc World Time Chronograph", Ref. 4980. Produced circa 2000. Very fine, oversized, world time, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Girard-Perregaux buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 6screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, the winding-crown at 9moves the city disc backwards or forwards, the one at 3 is forsetting the time and moving the night/day function backwardsor forwards, sapphire crystals. Brown with applied luminousdot indexes and a pink gold Arabic "12", auxiliary dials for theseconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by anoff-white and black revolving ring with contrasting paintedArabic numerals for the night/day hours, outermost revolvingdisc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for thedate. Luminous pink gold "feuille" hands, blued steel for thechronograph hands. Cal. 3387, rhodium-plated, "faussescôtes" and "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 63 jewels, straight linelever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensatingflat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10