Girard Perregaux - My thoughts …

My thoughts …

Mar 21, 2024,12:18 PM

Hi friends, ☀️

I would like to share my thoughts about the new Ti49 laureato chronograph.

Pros

1. $ 1,000 more for titanium is reasonable.
2. I like the dial color. Antracite grey is my favorite.

Neutral

1. Titanium is ok. I prefer steel myself. I can mage an extra 35 grams of weight.

2. To me, this is more of a dial color change as titanium doesn’t excite me much.

3. The clues and such if 1791 and 49 etc was cute. A bit weird to celebrate the 49th anniversary but ok …

Cons

1. The date wheel color. If you are going to match it to the dial then match it accurately. This date wheel is black to charcoal grey. GP should remove the date window completely IMHO. If product marketing is going to forums and groups like ours and to purist forums like watchprosite.com, they will see that senior and experienced collectors have been talking about the date windows for many years. I don’t think GP marketing folks are big watch geeks or enthusiasts themselves, so they are missing out on what collectors say.

2. Titanium and other materials wrapping the same movement and same bracelet and the same dimensions. This shows that GP is doing less with Horology science and more with Material science. And not than titanium is that amazing anyway.

3. The size of the 42 is too big for many. 40 mm is is a better size and would have been cool if they came out with the titanium in 40 mm.

4. Adjustable clasp. Micro adjustments missing again.

5. Movement size too small. Display caseback. Missing from this model. We have seen the display caseback on the Aston Martin steel chrono 42 mm.

6. I would like to see a laureato bi-compax chronograph, no date, from GP. This would be a break away from the Olimpico 3-sub register layout, but it can be done. Especially as a novelty/LE.

So it seems like GP is either messing around with things that do not matter as much and ignoring the other things that people are asking for … or they are going saving it all for the 50th anniversary.

There is an imbalance right now of material science and dial color changes vs true in-depth investment and improvement made from a horological pov.

The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph Ti49

By: India Whiskey Charlie : March 19th, 2024-13:52

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This is an attention grabber. Could have done without the date.

By: ArmisT : March 19th, 2024-13:58

I don’t recall their previous chronos grabbing me like this. Perhaps it’s the colors and materials on this one. How cool would a tantalum GP option be🤔

Not bad at all.

By: MichaelC : March 19th, 2024-14:00

This will be a popular release for GP.

Very nice - well done GP!

By: GWIS : March 19th, 2024-14:16

Thanks for the pictures. All the best, Jon

It does look nice. I wonder if they will ever use another calibre then the 3300 as the basis for their chrono

By: Chronometer (aka yacomino) : March 19th, 2024-15:36

I like anthracite grey

By: SingaporeMarc : March 19th, 2024-16:02

My 38 mm laureato (discontinued). The date window should go. Titanium vs steel … I don’t mind the weight of steel. So I pretty much view this as a dial color change. They could use the calibre 1800 and piggy back the D&D there but that would require some ...

I like it but who celebrates a 49th anniversary

By: Dchang81 : March 19th, 2024-17:59

It's like a 100th anniversary for people who use base-7!

By: blau : March 19th, 2024-20:12

I think not so much that they

By: SingaporeMarc : March 20th, 2024-04:59

Are celebrating the 49th anniversary, but more of a coincidence about the 1791 date of discovery for titanium and that the atomic mass for titanium is 49 etc etc.