The newest version of Laurent Ferrier’s GPHG Award-Winning Galet Annual Calendar School Piece, previously offered with gold cases and black or white opaline dials, pays tribute to the champagne-dialed vintage models of the 1950s. Limited to just five pieces, the Galet Annual Calendar School Piece “Vintage” combines a 40-mm steel case with a new opaline dial finished in a matte yellow-gold tone.
The Laurent Ferrier Galet Annual Calendar “Vintage” is limited to only five pieces.
The pebble-shaped “galet” case established in earlier versions of the Annual Calendar School Piece is notable for its straight, thin lugs, designed to evoke the look of early wristwatches, which were essentially converted pocketwatches, and its easy-to-grip ball-shaped crown. The pale, patina-look opaline dial, under a domed sapphire crystal, uses white-gold, ruthenium-treated ?Assegai? hands to indicate the hour and minute, and a small baton hand, also ruthenium-treated, for the small seconds subdial at 6 o?clock. A white, center-mounted hand points to the date on a scale of vintage-style Arabic numerals, numbered 1-31, around the periphery of the dial, while the day and month appear in two beveled apertures above the center, below 12 o?clock. The calendar-display scale is composed of brown painted numerals from 1 to 30 and a red-painted ?31? at the top. The calendar scale has painted brown numerals and a painted red “31.”
A ruthenium-treated bato...