... are a nice feature and pretty popular these days.
I personally like them very much both for optical and practical reasons.
Browsing some books (actually in hunt of something different) i came across this one. It shows GP does have quite a history in making grande guichet-watches of it?s own:


Although i?m not perfectly sure about the originality of the vintage dial, these watches span a period from about 1930 to 2002. This is quite a time, isn?t it?
Greetings from germany,
Peter