Girard Perregaux

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! And the rarest piece... (pictures)

 

Dear Lordship,

i?m glad you enjoyed the overview!

If talking about amazing pieces, there is the one that get?s the least attention here. Yet, these are the rarest they ever made and most probably unique pieces throughout the watchmaking industry:

GP calibre T3P

On the first look, it comes with a different bridge finish (the bridges sport a round polished finish, other than the regular pieces with anglage and flat polishing).

On the second look, it reveals this:



The difference is the spring detent escapement. I?m not aware of a contemporary watch by another brand to have a spring detent escapement, other than unique pieces by individual makers. It seems these escapements became almost a lost art. They are difficult to do and the labour in them pieces is many times more than a regular anchor-escapement tourbillon.
One can say they do them like they did before; it?s an exact copy of a 130 years old vintage piece (kept in the GP Museum).

Because it needs much experience, skills and knowledge to do them, there are only very few among GP?s Haute Horlogerie watchmakers to create these pieces. And it takes a lot of time, since more than 1.500 hours of work go into these pieces.
That?s why they are so rare and only made on special order; only 18 pieces were made so far, in 22 years after being introduced in 1982. And with number 18 delivered in 2003, the limited edition of 20 watches is almost completed.

I think the T3P is another piece that makes GP so special, in that these are very unusual and certainly most elaborate watches.

Regards,

Peter

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