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Girard Perregaux Rattrapante Foudroyante in Steel.
Two pictures for the pleasure of our eyes.
One of the watches in my wish list...
Not necessarily this version, though.
Best,
Nicolas
Foudroyante
Nice looking and interesting watch. I have to admit, that it's only since very recent, I know what foudroyante in combination with a watch means...
I don't see this version very often..
And it would be amazing to be able to see one in person
Sam
Sam
How's the size and thickness of these GP Rattrapante?
I remember seeing one it has a good diameter but it was thick , and so are the lugs.
It makes me wind back to 2000‘s
A Radiomir foudroyante 1/8 too (PAM 246) but without the rattrapante.
To be honest this time I think the Radiomir is more appealing, well to me at least ;-) and it is powered by GP too IIRC
I am wrong Twice not PAM 246 PAM 79 pfff...
And not indeed GP or ETA, but a modified Jaquet. Bad me me bad
Diabolical cocktails:-)
As you know I very rarely drink, but right now I feel I am stoned LoL 😂
I have one!
I spent 4 years looking for one after it's launch to an almost obsessive degree until I found one brand new and nicely priced. I really felt GP didn't actually make the 100 in the end such was the scarcity but in response to a mail on the matter GP kindly confirmed they did make 100. The tachy for instance, so well designed and unobtrusive, the bezel is HUGE but I love the heft, solid casebook, just really unique and unusual. A few phone pic's of it in real life...
IF
Looks great on you
I also like the look of the big bezel and lugs, but that means you have to have a pretty large wrist to pull it off. It looks great on you. Too many chronographs with tachymeters look busy IMO (Patek 5070 comes to mind), but this has a really nice clean layout overall. Congratulations
+1. There is a former version, round case, with a 40 mm diameter which is a tad easier to wear, too. [nt]
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To be honest it still feels big...
It's tall, but you can see how the lugs taper down around the profile of the wrist and are themselves quite long, the spring bars are actually set quite far up near the case and the lugs continue on. It wasn't part of an ongoing collection or really inside any GP design language of the time, if you look at the 1966 for instance this is a monster by comparison, not Ferrari affiliated like some other foudroyante GP's either. I feel they had the constituent components to build the 100 and made this, perhaps somebodies baby within GP to own/manage and there hasn't been one since from what I recall.