Girard Perregaux

rdenney
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The 80's is the decade I would have been young, hip, and rich..

except that I was never hip or rich. It was my first decade as an independent adult, so for me it's not nostalgic so much as just normal.

But there are watches from the 80's that might give the impression that there was a time when I was young, hip, and rich.

There was never a time when that hair was anything more than a parody, but there was a time when this was the hippest man in America:



And that time was 1986. Nice mullet, by the way, and a little less likely to cause the night terrors that surely must be the stuff of continued therapy for the poor soul in your first picture.

This was the watch "Sonny Crockett" was wearing:



The Ebel Sport Classique Chronograph, with caliber 134, aka Zenith El Primero (3019PHC, 40.0, or 400, depending on vintage--this one is a 40.0). This was Ebel's flagship when the owner was high-flying Pierre-Alain Blum, whose grandparents' house in La Chaux-de-Fonds nearly overlooked the Girard-Perregaux factory. Blum was certainly young, hip, and rich.

I never remotely conformed to any aspect of the Don Johnson (or Sonny Crockett) image, even when I wore Armani jackets and raced cars, both of which I did in the 80's, but in my current state I can live with it if people think there was a time when I did.

So, yes, I still like 80's watches.

--Rick



This message has been edited by rdenney on 2016-03-24 13:35:08