Girard Perregaux Vintage 1960 Black Dial Chronograph Automatic

Girard Perregaux “Vintage 1960” Chronograph 2598 was introduced in the 1990’s. This watch has afermarket rubber strap with afermatet deplayant buckle.

It equips rectangular chronograph push buttons, and a screw down winding crown. There is a solid case back secured with 7 screws, and it’s engraved with “MANUFACTURE – GIRARD-PERREGAUX – VINTAGE 1960,” and a serial number. The 38mm diameter solid three-body case, curved lugs, and flat angled stepped bezel, are polished/brushed.

The dial is black with luminous Arabic numeral hour markers and square pips around a perimeter railway-style minute/second scale. It has luminous dauphine hands, a luminous center sweep chronograph seconds hand, and there is a fourth luminous hand with a red arrow tip for the elapsed minutes. It has twin subsidiary dials with luminous white railway-style scales, Arabic numerals, and luminous sword indicator hands, including a 24-hour totalizer at 9 o’clock, and there is a running small constant seconds register at the 3 o’clock position. It has a 42-hour power reserve at full winding, it’s water resistant to 50 meters/165 feet, and the 14mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed.

This Girard Perregaux “Vintage 1960” Chronograph 2598 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Girard Perregaux caliber 2280 (base ETA caliber 2892-A2) movement modified with a Dubois-Dupraz 2021 chronograph module. It’s rhodium-plated, with Cote de Geneve embellishment, and it’s constructed with 44 jewels, a shock absorber device, and a straight-line lever escapement. It includes a monometallic balance, a self-compensating flat balance spring, blued screws, a hacking seconds device for precision time setting, and a micrometer regulator. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz).

The Girard Perregaux “Vintage 1960” Chronograph 2598 was introduced in the 1990’s.