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Girard-Perregaux. A Fine and Rare 18k Pink Gold Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon Chronograph Wristwatch with Breguet Numerals

Signed Girard-Perregaux, Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges, Chronograph Model, No. 5, Circa 2012

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Girard-Perregaux. A Fine and Rare 18k Pink Gold Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon Chronograph Wristwatch with Breguet Numerals
Signed Girard-Perregaux, Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges, Chronograph Model, No. 5, Circa 2012
Finely engraved mechanical lever movement, 46 jewels, one minute tourbillon with three gold bridges, cream matte dial, applied Breguet numerals, three subsidiary dials for 12 hours and 30 minutes registers and constant seconds, circular case, sapphire crystal display back secured by seven screws, two chronograph buttons in the band, 18k gold Girard-Perregaux deployant clasp, case, dial and movement signed

40mm diam.

Provenance

Property from an Important Private Collection

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Lot Essay

Girard-Perregaux's first tourbillon movement featuring three gold bridges was patented in 1884 by one of the firm's founders, Constant Girard; the unique example in the history of watchmaking represents still today a perfect combination of aesthetical, technical and symbolical aspects. At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889, his tourbillon with three gold bridges was awarded a gold medal and then declared out of competition, as it was beyond match.

Nearly 200 years later, in 1986, the firm's Research and Development Department was mandated with the creation of the wristwatch version of the tourbillon with three gold bridges to celebrate Girard-Perregaux's bicentenary in 1991. The challenge of miniaturizing the pocket watch movement and to inverse its construction by positioning the gold bridges on the dial side was perfectly mastered and crowned by the launch of the celebrated "Tourbillon sous trois Ponts d'or" wristwatch.

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