Girard-Perregaux 1966 Full Calendar Watch Wins

The distinguished elegance of the Girard-Perregaux 1966 Full Calendar watch was confirmed by the Japanese magazine "World Wrist Watch", who voted it Watch of the Year 2008 in Tokyo earlier this week.  

This pink gold watch, a technical delight within Girard-Perregaux's classical 1966 collection, features a complete calendar complication that presents day and month in windows, the date via a pointer, and a moon phase indicator.  The elegant opaline dial, with its pink gold leaf hands and applied baton indices, is reminiscent of Girard-Perregaux watches from the 1960's--an era in which the Swiss manufacture achieved a prestigious distinction from the Observatoire de Neuchatel for significant accomplishments in the field of chronometry.