Girard Perregaux

1975: the Vietnam war ends, Volkswagen introduces the Golf, some geek called Bill Gates founds Microsoft, Sony introduces Betamax. 8 years earlier, Dustin Hoffman plays in the movie The Graduate, known in Italy as Il Laureato. Even further back in 193...  

will clean NOS and non NOS GP stocks around the world Another great catch CC Sincerely Damjan

CC on the other hand .... ;) Best Blomman

Both of your collections are incredibly diverse and rich!

CC's is rich! :) He moves in lightning speed! Best Blomman

Big congrats - that one is so cool! :) My choice of the Laureato I would like to add is this one! :) Best Blomman ...  

thanks, my friend. I'm also on the lookout for an 8010 :) ah, and an 8017...damn.

Would go perfect with a Deep Diver and a Olimpico collection! ;) Best Blomman

When I think that I had the Chrono you showed in your last picture... I should have never let it go! Best, and thanks for this very pleasant and interesting reading. Nicolas

Congrats! Are you intending to do a head-2-head comparison against the more modern piece in your collection?

.. you have put that so nicely into context, a true pleasure read & quite educational, as well. Actually I had no knowledge of the evolution chain and its roots, including the Genta handwriting ! Thx again for this lovely post, which is a perfect link to ... 

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It was designed by the GP in-house design team. 🤝

The effort is quite commendable. I'm curious, are you intentionally searching old posts to correct them? 11 years old on this one.

... that the Laureato eas designed by Genta and he referred to this old post by CC. So I felt compelled to respond to him and to "correct" this post for the record. If myths are not corrected, they can become pseudo truths. They can be perpetuated. The GP...  

Thanks for clarifying the information. I am a novice on GP aside from the two I have owned, one of which is Tracy's and I know I promised to report on that, I will get to it one of these days!