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Girard-Perregaux 1966 Full Calendar
Girard-Perregaux's 1966 Full Calendar is the watch you're going to wear when you're really grown up, the watch you wear when the bonus decisions are yours to make and the buck stops on your desk. Quite apart from the seniority of Girard-Perregaux as a watch house, the company's owner, Gino Macaluso, is possibly the best connected (think Larry Ellinson, Bernard Arnault, Jean Todt) and is certainly one of the most widely liked and respected characters in the business.
The watch is a faithful replica of a design reputedly owned by Ian Fleming and certainly matches the description in From Russia With Love. It is named the 1966 after the Neuchâtel Observatory Centenary Prize for precision chronometers that the company won in that year and is so disobedient of the fashion for massive exotically-materialled, multi-dimensional super-nova watches as to be positively heroic.
The modern watch is based around the excellent GP3300 automatic movement which gives the watch day, date and month as well as a Moonphase, all of which are presented in perfect balance against a creamy white dial, pink gold index and hands and a pink gold case. Large enough for contemporary tastes, the watch is still slim enough to leave your shirt-cuff in one piece.
Not to be worn with torn denim, tee-shirts, replica football strips or synthetic breathable fabrics.
By James Gurney, editor of QP magazine
