We have been promising big things from GP in 2013 and before we have even recovered from the new year, GP has released an impressive piece of haute horlogerie in the 1966 Minute Repeater with Annual Calendar and EOT.

Those of us who fell in love with the movement of the 1966 Minute Repeater from last year will love this addition to the 1966 range. We now have a discreet pointer date, month indicator and the quirky equation of time complication to balance the dial.

I took these photos of the prototype at the Manufacture in October and you can see the depth achieved and the subtle brushed sunburst background. The newly designed chiselled indices, in solid rose gold, are also a nice detail – and we will see subtle design evolution of the indices of other watches in the 1966 range soon.

The watch measures 42mm in diameter and houses the delicious manual wind Cal. E09-0003 which uses two hammers to beat out the hours, quarters and minutes. The watch is on a simple rose gold buckle and will be limited to 15 pieces in this configuration. The stuff of dreams from Girard-Perregaux.