Girard-Perregaux · Family: Vintage 1945
The Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 XXL Large Date and Moon Phases 25882-11-121-BB6B is a dress watch with a 36.10 x 35.25mm tonneau steel case, inspired by the manufacture's mid-20th-century rectangular watches from La Chaux-de-Fonds. It runs the automatic in-house GP03300 caliber, with a patented two-disc large-date display and moon phase. Cazador has no verified price observations yet for this reference. Its standout detail: the date change is instantaneous, taking a ten-thousandth of a second, thanks to a transparent disc just 0.10mm thick that hides the gap between digits.
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Girard-Perregaux, based in La Chaux-de-Fonds since 1791, is one of the oldest continuously operating Swiss manufactures. The Vintage 1945 family pays tribute to the rectangular dress watches the house produced in the postwar years, a period when the tonneau case — with its curved lines and elongated proportions — became a common alternative to the classic round case across mid-century European watchmaking.
This XXL reference fits the in-house GP03300 caliber, an automatic movement with 282 components and 32 jewels that includes one of Girard-Perregaux's most recognized technical patents: a large-date system with two independent discs, one for tens and one for units, engineered so no visible gap separates the digits. The tens disc, practically invisible, is just 0.10mm thick, and the date change happens in a ten-thousandth of a second — instant, without the gradual creep some other large-date mechanisms show.
Beyond the large date, the GP03300 caliber adds a moon phase and small seconds, all within a movement just 4.90mm thick despite packing several complications. The 36.10 x 35.25mm steel case, 11.74mm thick with a sapphire case back that reveals the movement's finishing, keeps water resistance at 30 meters, enough for daily dress-watch wear but with no sporting ambitions.
This is the fourth Girard-Perregaux reference in Cazador's catalog, after the Laureato, the 1966, and the Neo Bridges, and the house's first with a tonneau case, a shape that clearly sets the Vintage 1945 family apart from the manufacture's otherwise round-cased catalog.
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A two-independent-disc system — one for tens, one for units — engineered so no visible gap separates the digits. The tens disc is just 0.10mm thick and the date change is instantaneous.
An instant-change large date, a moon phase, and small seconds, alongside the basic timekeeping functions, all within the automatic GP03300 caliber.
The Vintage 1945 family reproduces the shape of the rectangular dress watches Girard-Perregaux made in the postwar years, distinct from the rest of the manufacture's round-cased lines like the Laureato.
A minimum of 46 hours, running at 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz) with 32 jewels spread across its 282 components.
Since 1791, headquartered in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, making it one of the oldest continuously operating watchmaking manufactures.