Girard Perregaux

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Wearing my 38 mm GP Abarth Havana dial chronograph ref 4946 today

Some history:

This was was a special commission in 2004 which saw 50 pieces made. Inside beats the GP in-house calibre 3370. Usually with a date, the exception was made to have the date removed.

Former Girard-Perregaux owner and world champion race car driver Luigi “Gino” Macaluso drove an Abarth in many of his races. He was also a trained architect (talk about over-achiever 😅).

Torino native, Macaluso’s vintage car collection was world renowned and continues to this day to be owned and displayed by the Macaluso foundation.











Heritage, rarity provenance and IMHO, sheer raw beauty make this a special piece for me.









I hope that other collectors understand the anomaly that GP is. Beautiful pieces from the NEO vintage era that are often undocumented.

The anomaly is that while GP is one of the oldest Swiss maisons, archives of past pieces have been lost.

This creates both the challenge and the opportunity to add unique pieces to the “forever collection” that can be passed down to the next generation.

















Hope you enjoy the little write up and these pics I took.

If you have questions about GP NEO-vintage pieces, just ask in the comments. I’ll do my best to help.

🤝