Girard Perregaux

During a recent reflection on my collection, I realized that I don't own a true worldtimer. So I did a little archive research on PuristSPro, and two posts particularly caught my eyes.

One is Crown Comfort's "Photo Session with the wonderful GP ww.tc Financial", and the other one is Nicolas's "Girard Perregaux WW TC: Some rare pieces".

I have to admit that I have not paid much attention to the WW.TC line before, but this two posts really made me wonder why I have not taken a closer look at it, especially the WW.TC chronograph, which offers chronograph and worldtime, my two favorite functions, in one watch.

In the past couple of days, I browsed through the websites of some local watch stores, and was happy to find a major second-hand shop having four WW.TC chronographs in stock, all looking good in pictures.

So today I visited the shop to see which one I would like the most. The moment that the shop owner put down all four WW.TCs in front of me, I was immediately attracted by the F1-053 Ferrari version, and decided to take it home.

In the process, I traded in a Rolex 16570 Explorer II and the GP 4946 chronograph for this WW.TC. I consider this "2 for 1 deal" more as a "2 becomes 1 reincarnation", because with the WW.TC I not only have the chrono, but also have the worldtime function, which is an upgrade (at least for me) from the 16570's second time zone.

Here are some quick phone shots to share with you.

Really like the color combination.

I've heard that the wooden box is painted with the same paint used on the Ferrari F1-053 racing car. Not sure if this is true.

Thanks for looking.

Best,

Luis

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