GP seemed to have made a lot of missteps in past few years
Aug 20, 2019,04:48 AM
I love my 1966 full calendar in palladium and scuderia foudroyante, but most of their new stuff doesn’t excite, excluding their high end stuff of course..
Some 5 or 6 years ago, the Vintage 1966 manual winding chronograph, ref 49529 was a missed opportunity. The good thing? The manual winding movement, which is said to be in house, while I think it is born from the collaboration between Girard Perregaux and...
mix that with a case reduced to 38mm so the subsidiary dials aren’t too close together and it would have been a hit. At the original price point. I remember thinking “ohhhhh, so close, but not for me.”
I love my 1966 full calendar in palladium and scuderia foudroyante, but most of their new stuff doesn’t excite, excluding their high end stuff of course..