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For sale this amazing and really rare Girard Perregaux Olimpico from '68 housing an excelsior park P40.
Watch is in great overall conditions, recently serviced and perfectly working and keeping good time.
The watch is sold with B&P as you can see in the pics.
Here's a brief history and description of this rare bird taken from an article of hodikee:
Here's why: First, look at it. It's a classic doctor's chronograph with both a tachymetre and pulsations scale on the dial - just a great looking piece. Second, it is sized perfectly for a vintage chrono at 37mm (small, but not too small) and uses two pump pushers to activate its Caliber 037 movement. The movement uses a staight-line lever escapement and may even match the handsomness of the dial. Our favorite part of this movement is the "Girard-Perregaux" signature written in script by the winding crown.
"The 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City were the first games hosted by a developing nation. They were also the first games to be hosted in a Spanish-speaking country.
To commemorate this, the distributor for Girard-Perregaux at the time suggested the great manufacture to produce a chronograph in the Olympic theme - thus, the Olimpico was born.
Girard-Perregaux has produced a new Olimpico every four years since 1968, but to us, the original is the best.
Asking pirce Euro 3,2k shipping included worldwide.
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