Girard Perregaux 1966 palladio small second

I thought long and hard about a GMTIIC last November when I bought my LV. Agressive pricing and a very friendly local dealer, who let me stare at the watch on the counter for around a half hour while I was trying to make up my mind, made it very tempting.This story illustrates one of the reasons I stayed in the Sub family with my LV...(URL to other forum deleted as 'mdrums' kindly re-posted his story in an identical post below. Gents, thank you for sharing this interesting story with us)........

I am not sure you would class this as a Beginners watch, but it was not know if it existed , this is the only example know to be soldbarbizon-1.jpgIt sold for $41,500(includes buyers) at an auction in New York Its 18ct Gold , 22 jewels, on a Sterling silver dial it sold for $2200 when new a price of a new car in 1957The watch comes with its original strap and inner boxThere are some great watches out there, waiting to be found, Good Hunting(somebody stole my Y}........