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wristshot: Girard-Perregaux Classic Elegance 49570

Wristshot, 3rd February: Going back to the early 2000s to a watch from the Classic Elegance collection, which combined a number of different models under that label. Reference 49570 is indeed a classic elegant watch, simple time and date only. Some say an early version of the 1966 which was introduced a few years after. 49570 was available in steel with either black or white dial. The white dial had a blued seconds hand, something that we saw again in the first 1966 (Ref. 49525).

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Interesting is also the backside, for the first time, not the Caliber 3100 base was used, instead a larger caliber GP 4500 was deployed.  There was a precious metal variant with small seconds also in the collection. This model disappeared from the collection after the launch of the 1966 and as such is not often seen anymore.

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