SIHH 2011 – The Retro 1966 Small Seconds of Girard Perregaux
Famous for its tourbillon watches and perpetual calendars, the watch enterprise Girard Perregaux is putting forward a retro style model – the 1966 Small Seconds at the SIHH 2011. With its classical pocket watch style and exquisite details of watch making, this 1966 small seconds soon captures a lot of attention.
The Girard Perregaux 1966 Small Seconds represents the brand’s 1966 collection, which commemorates the time when the brand achieved successfully a big development of high frequency movements and a wide social recognition. The piece is a representative of Girard Perregaux’s retro style model with fine watch details.
The watch features an enamel white dial. It uses the traditional Grand Feu technique that was used to be applied in the pocket watches. To produce the purest and the most pristine effect, fine powders applied in the dial were fired in high temperatures. This pure beauty is unattainable if is applied in other methods. Further traditional beauties are the two blue feuille-shaped hands pointing to hours and minutes and the second hand one the subdial at 6 o’clock. The general classical styling of the elegant piece is even amplified by the rebellious little red “60” on the second subdial. The brand logo GP is showed exquisitely under the 12 o’clock index.
Driving the watch is a new automatic movement, the modified version of Girard Perregaux Calibre 3300, which could be viewed clearly through the sapphire case back. To make it able to resist strong shocks, the face is also made of sapphire crystal. The alligator strap adds a classical sense to the whole appearance.
This watch is available in both pink gold and white gold case. Choose whichever that appeals to you better. As a matter of fact, both versions appeal to me.
