Friends,
Last week I showed you a fun watch, which also holds the Masthead spot this week: the 9034 C!
With help from my friends at the Manufacture I am now able to give you some more information regarding this watch!
Before we go into details about the “Dot dial”, let me tell you a bit more about the reference 9034.
Reference 9034 was a big seller for Girard-Perregaux!
I have seen records indicating that the reference was in production all the way from 1967 up until 1976. At least 13 700 watches were made during this period. 13 700?! Why do we don’t more of these “Dot dials” around if so many?
The answer is easy; the “Dot dial” was probably only one of many batches of the reference 9034! I write probably, because there are no records of exactly how many of these were made.
From what I could find out at least the following sub-references existed within the 9034: AF, BB, B, C, D, FA, FG, FH, FK, FM, GA, GF, GH, GK, HA, HG, HK, KA and Q! 19 sub-references in total!
From what I understand, all of them had the same base caliber inside. Caliber 12 based on AS 1640.
Caliber 12 had several versions, among them was the 12.09, three armed ring balance, 12.4, non-Kif hollow plate and in the 9034 C: the caliber 12.3.
The caliber is a manual 17 Jewels with a frequency of 18 000 vph. Time only with sub-seconds at six o’clock.
Sub-seconds you might ask? Yes, sub-seconds. The most common 9034 was in fact a Sea Hawk!
Here is an image from the production sheet:
And here is a photo of the actual watch borrowed from Giuseppe.
Best
Blomman
This message has been edited by blomman on 2015-02-25 00:03:30