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Reference 9034 C ”Dot dial” – connecting the dots!

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!

The case is 34.5 mm in diameter and existed both in steel and Gold plated…

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.

[Pic credit: Giuseppe ”Robert11a2001”]

Among the different versions of the 9034 there is another very different one: the 9034 KA which was made for Rotary in 500 pieces.

As you might notice neither the Rotary nor the “Dot dial” versions have sub-seconds.

Back to the “Dot dial”, the only indication of this dial being used is on the 9034 C. The 9034 C batch was made in September 1967 and contained 1 000 pieces. If all of these watches had the “Dot dial” or not the records don’t tell…

But I doubt it, since it is a quite rare bird and only pops up once in a while… But there is no way to be sure! Maybe there is another 999 “Dot dials” out there hiding from us…

Retail price in 1967 was 145 CHF for the “Dot dial” in steel while the more common Sea Hawk was 135 CHF in steel.

34.5 mm of pleasure and fun!

Best

Blomman