Girard-Perregaux’s iconic world time complication, the ww.tc is for the first time is available in the most stylish collection of urban watches from the Maison: 1966.

With 80 patents to its name, Girard-Perregaux now encompasses the full range of watchmaking skills, from movement development through to finishing operations.

The ww.tc watch holds a place of its own within this prestigious context. Perpetuating the noble tradition of short-time measurement and custodian of significant Fine Watchmaking expertise, the Manufacture is indeed one of the rare few to have combined the chronograph and world time functions. This association gave rise to the ww.tc, the abbreviation for World Wide Time Control. Its two characteristic crowns on either side of the case soon made it one of the brand’s most iconic models.

The ww.tc complication enables instant and simultaneous readings of the time in 24 cities around the planet. Despite its sophistication, the new GP 1966 ww.tc – the first of the collection to provide this complication – is amazingly user-friendly in terms of both legibility and handling.

A rotating 24-hour disc surrounding the chapter ring features two black/white semi-circles to distinguish between day and night. Settings are performed via the two crowns at 9 and 3 o’clock: the first serves to position the reference city at noon; and the second to adjust the hours and minutes – with which the 24-hour disc is automatically synchronised.

Powered by a Manufacture automatic movement fitted with an additional module developed in-house, the Girard-Perregaux 1966 ww.tc watch is endowed with a 46-hour power reserve.

In a sign of its excellent finishing, this calibre enables the time and reference city to be set in both directions, a manoeuver that is prohibited on most movements. Finally, the perpetual sweep of the small seconds hand at 6 o’clock serves as a reliable operating indicator.

In tribute to a particularly important year for Girard-Perregaux, the 1966 collection is distinguished by several distinctively elegant characteristics: the case is topped by a slim, delicately polished bezel framing a generous opaline dial, protected by a sapphire crystal glass and swept over by the line’s signature “leaf-type” hands.

The transparent case-back reveals a mechanism meticulously straight-grained, chamfered, circular-grained and adorned with Côtes de Genève.

The Girard-Perregaux 1966 ww.tc watch is available in two versions: one in pink gold with a black alligator leather strap; and the other in steel.

Technical details

Model: Girard-Perregaux 1966 ww.tc

Case
Material: steel or 18K pink gold
Diameter: 40.00 mm
Thickness: 12.00 mm
Crystal: sapphire glass
Case-back: sapphire
Dial: opaline silver-toned
Hands: leaf-type
Water resistance. 30 metres (3 ATM, 3 bar)

Movement
Reference: GP03300-0022/0027 (pink gold/steel model), automatic
Diameter: 25.60 mm (11½’’’)
Thickness: 5.71 mm
Frequency: 28,800 Vib/h – (4 Hz)
Number of components: 248
Jewels: 32
Power reserve: min. 46 hours
Functions: hours, minutes, small seconds, world time with day/night indicator

Strap/Bracelet
Leather strap: alligator leather with topstitching
Metal bracelet: steel
Clasp: folding type in steel or 18K pink gold

References
Reference: 49557-52-131-BB6C (pink gold model, alligator leather strap)
Reference: 49557-11-132-BB6C (steel model, alligator leather strap)
Reference: 49557-11-132-11A (steel model, steel bracelet)