background/report: my Top 5 holy grails of Girard-Perregaux wristwatches
Time to push the envelope and look at what I would call the “Holy Grails” of all time of Girard-Perregaux.Continue Reading
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background/report: my personal watch highlights of 2019
As a collector there is no stopping, so every year for some reason new (or new vintage) watches enter myContinue Reading
background/report: MIMO, Otto Graef and Girard-Perregaux
MIMO Watches may be a forgotten brand nowadays. However, its place in history, especially for Girard-Perregaux is fundamental. It isContinue Reading
background/report: Sailing with BMW/Oracle in the America’s Cup
Certainly less well-know than the cooperation with Ferrari but nonetheless an important partnership of Girard-Perregaux from the 2000s is GPsContinue Reading
background/report: the 39 Jewels Gyromatic mechanism
Through this week, I showed a different Gyromatic watch every day. Now it is time to take a closer lookContinue Reading
background/report: Girard-Perregaux and the quartz revolution
In a digital world, computing machines can only work with on/off states or simple bits valued either 1 or 0.Continue Reading
background/report: Vintage watches and the service problem
All vintage watch collectors I know have the same problem. How to get your vintage watches serviced to perfection andContinue Reading
background/report: A five watch collection from Girard-Perregaux
Let’s be cruel and assume you can only have 5 watches in total. As we are the GP Chronicles, let’sContinue Reading
background/report: What has John Harrison to do with Girard-Perregaux?
An English clockmaker and a Swiss Haute Horlogerie maison? What do they have in common and who actually was JohnContinue Reading
background/report: Girard-Perregaux Constant Escapement
The Girard-Perregaux Constant Escapement is one of the most fascinating new developments in the watch industry of the last twoContinue Reading