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Vintage GP journey, Summer Edition, Part #1 – GP 9444 HA

Friends,

I promised you a summer menu filled with some vintage posts.

So let’s bring out the tray again…

What do you think is inside this time? Well, as the title state: It is the GP 9444 HA

The GP 9444 was the first quartz watch ever produced by Girard-Perregaux and the first Swiss quartz watch produced in a series.

Inside the first batch was the GP caliber 350, the first quartz movement ever to use the frequency 32.768 Hertz. My GP 9444 HA was produced in 1972, inside is caliber GP 352.

Launched in 1971 the retail price was CHF 500, this was considered too cheap by many in the industry, which thought GP was making the quartz technology too available for everybody…

The GP 9444 was produced between 1971 and 1974. Here seen in the 1972 catalog.

So, how does this quartz movement work…?

Well, here you have it! In Italian that is….

One detail that makes me smile when I see it … NO (0) JEWELS – that is not what you expect to see on a Swiss movement.

The dial is a drawing of the “Circuito Integrato”, the chip inside the movement. I know Damjan already stated that the Casquette is the coolest Quartz watch ever made. And I agree, but I can’t help thinking that this dial is the coolest Quartz dial ever made!

Here is a close up where you can really see the “wirings”!

Big, bulky case, typical 70’s shape.

Screw down case back.

Mine has a stamp on the case, looks like a bear(?) – my guess is an import stamp, Portugal or South America. Anybody recognize this stamp?

You know my love for blue dials… Here together with her blue mechanical sister.

The case is 42.5 x 38.5 mm, but since the lack of lugs, the watch doesn’t wear that big.

I hope you have enjoyed this first part of the summer menu!

More to come…

Best

Blomman

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