Girard Perregaux

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GP Ref 4940 salmon dial

I’m usually a little camera shy but perhaps we all have to move beyond our comfort zone sometimes.

I’m wearing my Girard-Perregaux ref 4940 here.

GP only made 150 pieces of the salmon dial and steel circa 2004 or so.

The NEO-vintage era is quite delightful.

I like this model because of the dial symmetry and layout. The double crown manages time, date, mechanical alarm and 2nd timezone. I also think that GP got the salmon pink just right here coupled with some playful splashes of red and the silver applied breguet numerals.

At a case diameter of 38 mm, it wears more like a 39/40 mm because of the dial size, box sapphire crystal and long curved lugs. I prefer the proportionality of this ref over it’s cousin which is 40 mm (ref 4935).

As always, thoughts and questions are welcome.

🤝