Girard-Perregaux Manufacture tour

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Reading Time: 8 minutesOn Thursday, 7th of November, I was invited by Girard-Perregaux to visit their freshly refurbished manufacture. The Girard-Perregaux Manufacture tour was organised on three different brand’s sites. The manufacture at Rue des Crêtets, the Haute-Horlogerie Department at Rue Numa-Droz and, the final destination of the tour, the Girard-Perregaux villa. In theContinue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Cat's Eye Plum Blossom

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year at SIHH, Girard-Perregaux presented two gorgeous ladies’ watches: the Cat’s Eye Plum Blossom in steel with a mother-of-pearl dial Reference: 80484D11A701-HK7A and in pink gold with aventurine dial Reference: 80484D52A401-CK4E. The famous GP ellipse is adorned with diamonds. The backside reveals a pure horological pleasure through the automatic movementContinue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Laureato 42mm Chronograph Ref. 81020-11-131-11

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Reading Time: 3 minutesI have reviewed the Girard-Perregaux Laureato Chronograph 42mm two weeks ago. I promised that I will come back with a lifestyle/vacation report. Just like the review of the Laureato 42mm three-hands that was split in two: the product style descriptive review and the lifestyle-oriented review. The Laureato Chronograph is anContinue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Laureato 42mm Chronograph Ref. 81020-11-131-11 cover

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Reading Time: 6 minutesGirard-Perregaux Laureato is one of those timeless pieces. For more than 40 years, Il Laureato (as the “The graduate” in Italian – the birthplace of the watch and its name) managed to grow a cult. After the review of the three hands version and its lifestyle-oriented gallery article, it isContinue Reading

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Reading Time: 6 minutesBorn in the ’70, in the full quartz crisis, Laureato is one of the most iconic watch designs ever to be created. It remained as one of the most emblematic designs of Girard-Perregaux. In 2016, the watch community received with great joy the rebirth of Girard-Perregaux Laureato in a 225Continue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Ecole d’Arts Appliqués

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJuly 2019 – For the tenth consecutive year, Girard-Perregaux joined forces with the Ecole d’Arts Appliqués (EAA) – located in its home town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland – to draw upon the creativity of students specialised in engraving as part of their graduation project. This artistic endeavour, involving the completeContinue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute Chronograph For Only Watch

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn what has become a tradition for Girard-Perregaux, the Maison will once again be participating in this year’s edition famous Only Watch auction to benefit research on neuromuscular diseases. Placed under the high patronage of H.S.H. The Prince of Monaco, Only Watch is a benchmark international watchmaking charity event. GirardContinue Reading

Girard Perregaux Laureato Perpetual Calendar oblique

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Laureato collection, which remains as successful as ever, reinterprets the great watchmaking classics while remaining faithful to its contemporary spirit and sporty chic. To tackle the masterful complication represented by the perpetual calendar, Girard-Perregaux has designed a Laureato that is all about subtle positional shifts arranged in a dynamicContinue Reading

Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Tri-Axial Tourbillon

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSoon will start the 29th Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. This will be held at Geneva between 14th and  17th January 2019. Until this major event will start, I decide to remember some of the pieces presented last year, at SIHH 2018. The first piece will be the Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Tri-Axial Tourbillon Reference 99830-21-000-BA6A.Continue Reading