Back to the 90s and more neo-vintage Girard-Perregaux watches, another Richeville. The Richeville 2750 and I have a very long and shaping relationship. In fact, the Richeville 2750 was the watch that started it all. On a trip to Hong Kong in 1997, I spontaneously bought a Richeville 2750. The watch I bought had a blue dial with Roman numerals, a bit similar to my current 2710 with blue dial.
The Richeville was – I would say – only my second real watch and immediately became a favourite, my daily wear. A fews years later, I really started to desire the black dial with exploding numerals. Meanwhile I was living in Hong Kong and decided to step by the Girard-Perregaux service centre and they happily changed the dial and hands on my watch to the black with exploding numerals. Again some years later, I fell in love with the same watch, same dial, but in blue, and when the opportunity came I bought the blue dial. My other black dial 2750, I had let go in the meantime for reasons I can no longer understand.
I had and still have also the white dial with exploding numerals in my collection. The blue 2750 turned out to be just a bit too blue. I don’t know how to explain that. For example, the 2710 blue dial has a sunburst effect of the blue and the blue is quite dark, while the 2750 was just flat blue. Again, I took the opportunity to let go the blue dial again, thinking I can be just happy with the white/silver dial 2750 in my collection.
Well, I was wrong. Another 2750 black dial came for auction and I could not resist. And here we go full circle, back to the black dial with exploding numerals. This time I put a sticker on it: “Never Sell”. I truly think the 2750 is one of the most interesting neo-vintage GPs. The case size is just perfect, it is slightly bigger than then the manual-wind 2710. The triangular pushers gives them a special design feature. The stepped bezel that can also be found on its rectangular brother, the 2520, gives the watch a lot of character and wrist presence.
The 2750 is more overlooked than the 2710 due to its ETA-based automatic movement and modular chronograph, but to me that does not matter. It works perfectly fine and what counts to me is the overall design of the watch, which is close to perfection.
Back to the 90s and more neo-vintage Girard-Perregaux watches, another Richeville. The Richeville 2750 and I have a very long and shaping relationship. In fact, the Richeville 2750 was the watch that started it all. On a trip to Hong Kong in 1997, I spontaneously bought a Richeville 2750. The watch I bought had a blue dial with Roman numerals, a bit similar to my current 2710 with blue dial.
The Richeville was – I would say – only my second real watch and immediately became a favourite, my daily wear. A fews years later, I really started to desire the black dial with exploding numerals. Meanwhile I was living in Hong Kong and decided to step by the Girard-Perregaux service centre and they happily changed the dial and hands on my watch to the black with exploding numerals. Again some years later, I fell in love with the same watch, same dial, but in blue, and when the opportunity came I bought the blue dial. My other black dial 2750, I had let go in the meantime for reasons I can no longer understand.
I had and still have also the white dial with exploding numerals in my collection. The blue 2750 turned out to be just a bit too blue. I don’t know how to explain that. For example, the 2710 blue dial has a sunburst effect of the blue and the blue is quite dark, while the 2750 was just flat blue. Again, I took the opportunity to let go the blue dial again, thinking I can be just happy with the white/silver dial 2750 in my collection.
Well, I was wrong. Another 2750 black dial came for auction and I could not resist. And here we go full circle, back to the black dial with exploding numerals. This time I put a sticker on it: “Never Sell”. I truly think the 2750 is one of the most interesting neo-vintage GPs. The case size is just perfect, it is slightly bigger than then the manual-wind 2710. The triangular pushers gives them a special design feature. The stepped bezel that can also be found on its rectangular brother, the 2520, gives the watch a lot of character and wrist presence.
The 2750 is more overlooked than the 2710 due to its ETA-based automatic movement and modular chronograph, but to me that does not matter. It works perfectly fine and what counts to me is the overall design of the watch, which is close to perfection.
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