ww.tc - Financial

  World First: Girard-Perregaux Presents the ww.tc - Financial

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With its ww.tc - Financial, Girard-Perregaux, has created the first chronograph to indicate the different times around the world as well as the business hours of four major stock markets. A technological and aesthetic tour de force, this innovative, high-performance time-piece brings together the two exciting worlds of horology and finance. 

The elegance of Girard-Perregaux’s ww.tc line blends well with its modern functions. These watches can be used to read, simultaneously and very easily, the time in twenty-four different cities, one for each time zone; hence the name, ww.tc, the abbreviation for World Wide Time Control. 

This function, which is ideal for international travellers and businessmen, has been supplemented with a novel feature in the ww.tc – Financial automatic chronograph. For the first time, a watch now indicates the different times around the world as well as the hours when four stock markets - New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo – are open for business. 

This system depends on two mobile discs around the dial: a 24-hour ring is synchronised with the hour hand. A second bezel can be regulated with the crown at 9 o’clock; this displays the names of the twenty-four cities and the periods when the four bourses are open for business. When the red pointer on the hour ring is opposite one of these periods, that particular market is open.

Style and Technical Mastery 

The chronograph’s new exterior finishing accentuates the strength of its lines, combining a delicate classicism with strong personality. In keeping with the Brand’s passion for detail, the watch has been perfectly designed. The hour ring features a day/night contrast, making it easier to read, and harmonises with the large-numbered, silver or anthracite dial. 

The large pink gold case, forty-three millimetres in diameter, houses the Girard-Perregaux GP033C0 automatic mechanical movement. Embellished with a gold rotor, this sophisticated mechanism, designed and manufactured by the Girard-Perregaux Manufacture, can be admired through an anti-reflective sapphire crystal. 

Two limited, individually-numbered series are planned for ardent steel-case enthusiasts: five hundred will combine this discreet metal with a silver dial, the other five hundred with an anthracite one. Both will have a power reserve of at least forty-six hours.

The transactions that crisscross the globe twenty-four hours a day are reflected in the financial markets. “Wall Street has opened on a positive note and London is still rising…“Like a watch Manufacture, this complex world uses the most up-to-date technologies to meet new challenges, while drawing on its historical traditions.

Today’s financial markets were founded long ago by small groups of tradesmen and stockbrokers. In the eighteenth century, London brokers laid the foundations for the London Stock Exchange; sometime later, the New York Stock Exchange began taking shape in Manhattan. The London bourse is Europe’s foremost stock exchange, while Wall Street is the world’s number one.

Two other stock markets, now occupying key places in international finance, started up at the end of the nineteenth century: the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one of today’s leading bourses, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Analysis: ww.tc, One of Girard-Perregaux’s Treasures

The ww.tc line, part of the Classical Elegance collection, illustrates the Brand’s excellence. Its internationally-successful models express its grand horological tradition, passion for design, and bold, modern vision. Following the automatic chronograph it launched in 2000, Girard-Perregaux introduced a model in 2005 that was forty-one millimetres in diameter and featured a power reserve. The Manufacture then incorporated a Tourbillon with three gold Bridges movement into this line for the first time.

In early 2006 the Brand launched of the ww.tc perpetual calendar, the first watch to combine the hours of the world and perpetual calendar functions. Proof of the Brand’s boldness and vision, it does not only indicate the time in twenty-four different cities, but also the days of the week, the months and the moon phases over a four-year period, including leap years, all harmoniously arrayed in a gold case.

Ongoing Innovation

 Girard-Perregaux knows how to use its watchmaking heritage to create new treasures. Since its foundation in 1791, the
Manufacture has guarded its independence and concentrated on developing its status as a manufacture. Located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura, it is one of only a handful of companies to design and manufacture its own movements. 

Perfection and adaptability, tradition and innovation have been brought together to create an exceptional range of timepieces and movements: the fabulous Tourbillon with three gold Bridges, for example, other complications like the Foudroyante seconds, as well as a whole array of automatic mechanical movements and quartz movements. 

With over eighty registered patents to its name, the company reinvests a good part of its turnover in Research and Development. With the creation of two new calibres this year, one particularly adapted to ladies’ watches, Girard-Perregaux has demonstrated once again the wealth of its technological expertise.

Technical specifications

Steel case

Diameter: 43.00 mm
Height: 13.40 mm
Crystal: antireflective sapphire
Case back: see-through, fastened with 6 screws
Water resistance: 30 meters

Movement Girard-Perregaux GP033C0
Mechanical with automatic winding
Calibre: 13’’’
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations/hour (4 Hz)
Jewels: 63
Power reserve: minimum 46 hours

 Functions: hour, minute, small second, date, chronograph, world time with day/night indication, global stock market trading times

Alligator strap with folding buckle

Limited and numbered edition of 500 pieces

Pink gold case  

Diameter: 43.00 mm
Height: 13.40 mm
Crystal: antireflective sapphire
Case back: see-through, fastened with 6 screws
Water resistance: 30 meters

Movement Girard-Perregaux GP033C0
Mechanical with automatic winding
Calibre: 13’’’
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations/hour (4 Hz)
Jewels: 63
Power reserve: minimum 46 hours 

Functions: hour, minute, small second, date, chronograph, world time with day/night indication, global stock market trading times

Alligator strap with folding buckle

Some Images from the Launch

Girard-Perregaux selected a fitting location for the official launch of the ww.tc - Financial: the vault of the former J.P. Morgan Bank at 25 Broad street in Manhattan, near the New York Stock Exchange...  

Girard-Perregaux's owner, Dr. Luigi “Gino” Macaluso, poses next to the vault's massive door...

G-P USA President Ron Jackson addresses the audience...

G-P's Dimitri Aubert provides a technical tour of the ww.tc - Financial...

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