Girard Perregeax Casquette 2.0

[JC180]

So this is an unusual one. I'm too young to remember LED watches from the '70s and I'm really not a quartz fan boy in any way but my AD called me about this last week and I was intrigued. Following from GPs only watch Casquette, here is the Casquette 2.0.

It's an unusual piece and something of a marmite watch (you love it or hate it) but it's definitely unique and interesting for sure. My only gripe is there is no contestant time it's by the press of a button as otherwise battery life would be in the days or weeks...

It's fully ceramic, case and bracelet and it's packaging and features are quirky. You can set a secret date for example that lights up for 20sec a day. It has time, sec, date, chrono, 2nd time zone and secret date functions all controlled from two buttons on the side. It's light at just over 100g and certainly cuts and interesting shape on the wrist. Price... Well it's as much as I paid for my GMT II back in 2011 so it's no value proposition, I will leave the perceived value up to you to decide. It's limited to 820 worldwide and is sold out online with limited numbers in showrooms.

Anyway. Over to the pics.