The new Girard-Perregaux 1966 watch replica dressy three-hander brings you the easily recognizable styling of the 1966 family that soon comes to market in a medium-sized body 41 millimeters in diameter and features one of their highly reliable automatic movements with increased power reserve. At that time, when the trend for large and extra-large timekeepers was becoming quite clear (to say the least), the company needed a movement that wouldn’t look ridiculous in a large body.
Rose Gold Girard-Perregaux 1966 watch
The movement in question is, of course, their time-proven GP4500 self-winding caliber. Manufactured solely in-house, the movement was first introduced around six years ago after four years of painstaking research and development. Compared to the previously available ref. 49525-52-131-BK6A model, the new 1966 three-hander is not only 10 percent larger and thicker, but also offers eight more hours of guaranteed power reserve.
As you can see, the best fake Girard-Perregaux watch itself sports a highly recognizable design with its leaf-shaped hands, applied hour markers and the blued steel second hand with the signature counterweight. For an automatic watch with a simple calendar, the GP4500 is quite thin being less than four millimeters in height, so GP’s designers managed to keep the timepiece’s overall height within the 10 millimeter range, even despite the domed sapphire crystal that covers the opaline dial.
Rose Gold Girard-Perregaux 1966 watch
The increase in size (the GP4500 is 4.40 mm larger in diameter than their earlier GP3100 base caliber) also allowed introducing a larger mainspring barrel letting Girard-Perregaux to kill two birds with one stone: they significantly (by around 1/4th) increased the minimum power reserve of the mechanism and also noticeably improved its isochronism because longer and stronger spring tends to produce more constant torque during the day.
The personalized setting crown, although quite small, doesn’t look especially hard to handle. At least, I have never heard any complaints regarding its ease of use even from people that happen to possess podgy fingers.
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Girard-Perregaux 1966 automatic watch specification
Price: TBD
Movement: Automatic, Caliber GP4500, in-house, large barrel, 30 mm x 3.95 mm, Swiss Made
Number of jewels: 28
Movement frequency: 28,800 vph
Power reserve: 54 hours
Movement decoration: No data
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date
Case material: Rose gold
Bezel material: Matches case
Crown material: Matches case
Case shape: Round
Bezel shape: Round
Case size: 41.00 mm
Case height: 10.00 mm
Lug width: No data
Dial: Selver-toned
Numerals: None
Hour markers: Rose gold
Hands: Rose gold
Water resistance: 30 meters
Strap: Black alligator leather strap with rose gold pin buckle
Crystal: Sapphire, domed, antireflective coating
Case back: Sapphire
Together with its slightly oversized (for a dress watch) diameter of 41 millimeters, this refined rose gold Girard-Perregaux 1966 copy watch looks quite slender and well-proportioned.