Friends,

I promised you a report on my recent acquisition, the Girard-Perregaux “Black, Red and Blue”, reference 9034 Q.

As you may already have understood, this one is related to the 9034 “Dot dial” which we have seen examples from several batches - C, BB, FH and FK.

I think it is safe to say that the Dot dial was included in even more batches.

When it comes to the 9034 “Black, Red and Blue” (we still need to find a cool nickname for this one) I have less information to go on…

Why? Because I didn’t see as many of this dial version as I saw of the Dot dial.

Again, the dial design is a bit “crazy” or unorthodox…

Big white painted hour marks on a black background, hand painted hour and minute hands…

A very interesting detail is the sub-second dial.

It is hard to see in my photos, but the sub-second dial has a very fine circular pattern and on top of that there are the hand painted red markers!

Compared with the Dot dial which lacks the sub-second dial…

On the “Black, Red and Blue” the sub-second dial becomes a central design element!

Interestingly, the both watches share the same calibre inside, the GP Calibre 12.3, based on the AS 1640 movement.

The GP Calibre 12.3 is a manual movement with sub-second.

18 000 bph and a power reserve of 42 hours.

On the Dot dial, Girard-Perregaux choose not to utilize the sub-second.

But the “Black, Red and Blue” is not the only one where the sub-second dial is used.

On the more traditional Sea-Hawk 9034, the sub-second dial is there.

Photo credit: robert11a2001

My watch is from the batch Q which was produced in November 1967, 1 000 pieces.

Would be interesting to know how many of those that had the “Black, Red and Blue” dial…

Side-by-side, the Dot dial and the “Black, Red and Blue” complement each other very well!

One with dots in black, white and grey…

The other with squares in white, red and black!

Sharing the same hands, case and movement…

So very similar but still very different from each other!

Here is the “BB” and the “Q” next to one another:

Needless to say, I love this quirky crazy fun watch!

As mentioned in the review of the Dot dial – several other versions of these hand painted dials exists…

Will report back, once I found another one!

Best

Blomman

PS. You find the review here: Reference 9034 C ”Dot dial” – connecting the dots!