18K White Gold Vintage Girard Perregaux Wrist Watch

This stunning vintage 18K white gold ladies wristwatch, signed 'Girard Perregaux' has a 16mm round shaped case with a silver dial, featuring hour and minute hands and baton markers. It runs on a mechanical movement which requires winding. Twenty round brilliant cut diamonds surround the bezel and another eighteen line the edges of the textured gold bracelet. The thirty-eight diamonds combine for 1.46 av. ctw. The case back is stamped #73660555. The watch measures approximately 6.5" in length and the bracelet is 1/2" wide with a fold over clasp.

Girard-Perregaux SA is a luxury Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. In 1791, watchmaker and goldsmith Jean-François Bautte signed his first watches. He created a manufacturing company in Geneva, grouping for the first time ever all the watchmaking facets of that time. This included the engineering of the watch all the way to the final hand-assembly and hand-polishing of each piece. In 1832, Jacques Bautte and Jean-Samuel Rossel succeeded Jean Bautte, becoming the head of the company. In 1852, the watchmaker Constant Girard founded Girard & Cie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. He then married Marie Perregaux in 1854, and the Girard-Perregaux Manufacture was founded in 1856. In 1906, Constant Girard-Gallet, who took over control of the Manufacture from his father, acquired the Bautte House and merged it with Girard-Perregaux & Cie. Girard-Perregaux relies on being a manufacturer of movements and watches, and a manufacturer of cases and bands. This global approach, founded on the traditional know-how of the watchmaking craftsmanship, allows them to create and direct high quality watches and movements from the assembly stages all the way to the final encasement.

• 18K white gold 
• (20) round brilliant cut diamonds (0.95 av. ctw) and (18) round brilliant cut diamonds (0.51 av. ctw) 
• Diamond clarity: SI-2 - I-1, I-1 
• Diamond colour: G-H 
• Average combined carat weight: 1.46 av. ctw 
• Total gram weight: 34.2  
• Measures approximately 6.5" in length 
• Independently appraised value for insurance purposes: $17,015.00 (appraisal certificate included.) 

Please note: replacement value is based upon the secondary market as the watch is no longer produced.