nomadgiles
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Very nice!
Looks like an early model of HF from the hands.
Here's a few GP highbeats - the last one now with my son.
GP HF Chronometer Gyromatic
Euro hi-beat from late 1960s. Slim, 34mm but wears larger. ...
Very nice!
Looks like an early model of HF from the hands. Here's a few GP highbeats - the last one now with my son. ...
Do you know... do all the watches shown in this thread have the same movement? 32A (??)
No two seem to be alike! I read somewhere that GP made 662 examples, and it seems like they put them all in different cases!!
Only the square HF case has Cal 32A - and it's a very rare case of the 662 made. The top and bottom ones are cal 42. The black/white dial is a high frequency cal 440 but it's not a validated to chronometer status.
This website has some useful cal data: www.ranfft.de www.ranfft.de www.ranfft.de
here's one of my three GP HF
I'm not sure the dial and the case match correctly, may be they come from two different watches... ...
Same shape with iron only mark
I have quite same watch and bracelet, except the hour mark is silver. I do like the dial texture very much, and of course the smooth buttery movement of second hand.
Do you know if we can manually wind this watch ?
Hi, I have the same watch but with metal bracelet. it works properly by shaking the watch, I tried to turn the crown anti-clockwise and I heard a click sound regularly. Then, I stopped trying to wind the watch manually. So the question if you know that we...
