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Brand :
Girard-Perregaux
Model :
Ww.Tc
Reference :
Girard Perregaux - 498
Category :
Wrist Watch
Period :
2000's
Movement :
Automatic
Caliber :
3387
Case material :
White gold
Case form :
Round
Dial color :
Enamel
Reference Detail :
498
Complications :
Chronometre, Date, Time Zones
Description :
C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, transparent case back with screws, rounded bezel, concave lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Off-white with applied white gold Arabic numerals and tritium coated applied dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, surrounded by black and white revolving ring with contrasting painted Arabic for the night/day hours, outermost revolving disc bearing the names of 24 cities in the world, aperture for the date between 2 and 3. Tritium coated white gold feuille hands, blued steel arrow for the chronograph. The winding-crown at 9 activates the city disc backwards or forwards, the one at 3 is for time-setting and activating the night/day division disc clockwise or counter-clockwise. M. Cal. 3387, rhodium plated, fausses côtes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 63 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm.