GIRARD – PERREGAUX

Girard-Perregaux is one of the very few original Swiss watch manufacturers. For over two centuries, Girard-Perregaux creates timepieces for real experts. The rareness of the company lies in the balanced combination of technical mastery with passion for design. Constant research and development allow the company to introduce varied portfolio of watches to the market from simple models to complicated ones with additional functions and complications.

Hand in hand with technical mastery goes the original approach to design. Both of these are combined with sense for details and sophisticated style. More than anything else, Girard-Perregaux timepieces express emotion and real passion.

The tradition of Girard-Perregaux goes back to 1791. Results of their work contain pieces combining technical and aesthetic mastery. An example of this is the well known Tourbillon with three gold Bridges made by Constant Girard in the 19th century. This unique heritage is reflected in the application of the newest technologies. The watches are not only the re-make pieces from the past, but innovative pieces conducted with the attempt for perfection and thorough research to the smallest details.

Girard-Perregaux has nearly 80 filed patents. The Manufacture reinvests a high proportion of its turnover in its Research & Development Centre, a genuine cornerstone of the business. It is reasserting its interest in pioneering techniques and materials, as shown in particular by the use of silicon or new technologies for certain movement components. It is consolidating its comprehensive approach, which enables it to design and produce both the external components of watches and their mechanisms. Girard-Perregaux makes in-house complete collections of movements: from Haute Horlogerie to high-end automatic winding mechanical to quartz.

The Manufacture integrates tens of different skills, from engineers to master watchmakers via dial enameller, from experts in movement decoration or to technicians in the case and wristlet manufacturing workshops. Brought together in La Chaux-de-Fonds, all these specialists are at the service of Girard-Perregaux watches, which are subject to painstaking care, and now reveal their latest secrets.

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