Girard Perregaux Tourbillon *Opera One* Platinum Three Enameled18K Gold Bridges The Only One Ever Made! Start Price USD 299,999.00 Current Price USD 299,999.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, August 20, 2008 End Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 Location La Jolla, California See more about 'Girard Perregaux Tourbillon *Opera One* Platinum' Description   “Unique Opera One” Girard-Perregaux, La-Chaux-de-Fonds  Opera One - Piece Unique     Carillon ‘Westminster’ Minute Repeater with Tourbillon and 3 Enameled Gold Bridges”    Extremely fine and important, Carillon ‘Westminster’ Minute-Repeating   Platinum Wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator    3 enameled 18K Gold Bridges and an 18K white gold Girard-Perregaux Deployant Clasp.     Just Serviced by Girard-Perragaux at the factory in March 2008 (Have all Paperwork and a Two Year International Guarantee/Warranty Card)       Gently used from a Private Watch Collection         Some History..  The Three Gold Bridges first moved to the wrist in 1991, as a commemorative timepiece for the company’s 200th birthday, and generated enormous excitement for as a new style, as well as technical wonder. It is testimony to Constant Girard’s vision that the design dated to the turn of the century. The recent Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges timepieces uphold the watchmaker’s tradition while continuing to advance technology. In the Automatic Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges, the rotor is fitted beneath the barrel, retaining the face of the watch as the focus of beauty: the Three Gold Bridges.   Girard-Perregaux dates from 1791 and from that time has always expressed the combination of the two qualities that have most contributed to its success: technical skill and commercial instinct. Among the most exceptional watches under the Company’s name is the Tourbillon Three Gold Bridges, awarded the Gold Medal at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1867 and in 1889. The Company has become internationally known only fairly recently, and owes its rapid expansion to its own interpretation of “global manufacturing”, that is, the real production capacity to move from making single components and all kinds of movements to the design and realization of exclusive, top quality pieces.     Girard Perragaux Web Site: http://www.girard-perregaux.ch/collection/collection_detail_fr.aspx?id=3&id_montre=43&id_subCollection=2   I will do my best to answer all the questions Please review the auction thoroughly before sending questions     Bid with confidence, Please verify my feed back PowerSellers rank among the most successful sellers on eBay in terms of sales and customer satisfaction. We are proud to recognize their contributions to the success of the eBay Community!             Place a Bid!