After 20 lengthy years, I believe it’s time I lastly come out of the closet. You see, mother and pop (and Worn & Wound readers), I’m, the truth is, a nerd. I do know! I do know! I’ve tried to cover it through the years. Secretly studying science-fiction at evening. Becoming a member of the Mathletes in sixth grade beneath the guise of doing it paradoxically. All of the indicators had been there, it simply wasn’t till this very second I felt like I might let you know all this.
What has brought on me to publicly handle my internal nerd comes from the discharge of the brand new Girard-Perregaux Casquette 2.0 Titanium and Gold. With its harkening again to an earlier 1970’s reference and that dreamily retro pink LED show, it’s simply the kind of watch I might see on the wrists of these queuing for the primary Star Wars trilogy.
With the ability to cohesively mix two seemingly incongruent design references is not any small feat, so it’s particularly attention-grabbing to see the brand new launch of the Casquette. As a rule, Girard Perregaux leans into conventional timepieces, with maybe a couple of upgrades right here or there to stay thrilling to the market. Nearly in distinction, the Casquette sequence of watches is a retro-futuristic dream, a departure that also one way or the other works for the model.
A part of the rationale for understanding this mannequin’s return is to grasp the rationale behind its creation. Within the 1970’s, two technological advances happened that started to combine know-how extra into the design aesthetics of watchmaking: the manufacturing of quartz watches and the LED show. Girard-Perregaux was an early adopter of each, permitting for a time wherein the Swiss maison was capable of not solely enhance their up to date line-up, but in addition construct one thing completely distinctive to rejoice these rising applied sciences. Couple that with the final zeitgeist of the 1970’s for sci-fi blockbusters, and you’ve got your self the primary iteration of the Casquette in 1976.
Forty-six years later, the Casquette 2.0 was released in 2022 after a neighborhood effort to re-release this beloved design. And now, in 2024, the Casquette 2.0 has been improved with a Grade 5 titanium case and bracelet (with a rubber lining for added consolation) and 18K yellow gold GP brand and pushers as a brand new limited-edition launch.
The pink LED show of the Casquette 2.0 retains its retro appeal with a couple of functionalities that aren’t going to compete together with your Apple Watch, however are nonetheless an enormous leap ahead from what the unique reference was capable of do. Along with holding time, the Calibre GP03980-powered watch additionally permits for month, 12 months, chronograph, second time zone, and a secret date performance (I might, in fact, set mine to October 26, 1985 if I might).
What’s most attention-grabbing about this specific Calibre is that it will probably really be retrofitted into the primary era of Casquette fashions from the 1970’s, bypassing technological obsolescence that plagues us right now. I believe this can be a nice option to bridge not simply the 48-year hole between fashions and one which, I hope, different manufacturers take discover of.
The most recent Casquette reference is accessible to Girard-Perregaux homeowners and self-proclaimed “GP Lovers” from October 31 – November 14. Thereafter, the watch will probably be accessible on-line and in Girard-Perregaux boutiques with a price ticket of $4,960 with a limited-production run of simply 820 items. Girard-Perregaux
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