GIRARD-PERREGAUX – BRIDGES Grand Complications Minute Repeater Flying Bridges 47мм Gold Tourbillon - 2026
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MINUTE REPEATER FLYING BRIDGES
HIGHLIGHTS
As
the third benchmark calibre unveiled in less than six months, the
GP9530 vividly illustrates Girard-Perregaux’s dynamic approach to Haute
Horlogerie.
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Entirely designed, developed and assembled in-house, it pays
tribute to the minute repeater, a complication emblematic of the brand
since the 1820s.
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This 475-part openworked calibre combines a minute
repeater, a tourbillon and a new self-winding system. Its assembly and
decoration require nearly 440 hours of work.
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- Within barely six months, the Manufacture is introducing a third new top-rate calibre developed and produced entirely in-house: the GP9530.
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- Its mechanical architecture is designed to enhance resonance and redefine the aesthetic codes of the chiming watch according to Girard-Perregaux.
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- A unique micro-rotor combined with a slide-piece ensuring water resistance to 30 metres.
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- Over 440 hours of decoration and assembly have been lavished on a 475-component calibre bearing the initials of the Master Watchmaker who assembled it.
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Offering
a fresh expression of Girard-Perregaux’s expertise in the field of
chiming watches, Calibre GP9530 stems from an alliance between expertise
born in the late 18th century and 21st-century engineering.
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The
Minute
Repeater Flying Bridges characterises the vision of avant-garde Haute
Horlogerie and marks a new era in the history of
Girard-Perregaux minute
repeaters.
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Developed
to enhance the acoustic experience through a series of technical and
aesthetic choices exalting the purity of sound, its diffusion and
resonance, this new calibre blends design and function, highlighting the
beauty of each component within a perfectly symmetrical structure.
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Experts
in the design of complex calibres,
Girard-Perregaux’s
master-watchmakers have achieved a technical feat by combining two grand
complications and a new self-winding system featuring a micro-rotor in a
movement measuring
43.55 mm in diameter and
10.75 mm thick.
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Skilfully
openworked to ensure maximum transparency, Calibre
GP9530 offers a
modern interpretation of the Three
Bridges architecture, the brand’s
iconic signature since the mid-
1800s.
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In this contemporary version, the
historical aesthetic has been reinterpreted with the third bridge
positioned at the rear of the movement.
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The bridges’ arrow-shaped ends represent the DNA of a Manufacture firmly focused on the future.
CHIMING WATCHES EMBEDDED IN THE
GIRARD-PERREGAUX DNA
“Listening” to the time is an ancient
custom.
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| Girard-Perregaux - A Pocket History 1850 circa |
At the end of the 18th century, the bell attached to the back of
pocket watches to chime the hours and quarters was replaced by a new
device consisting of a gong wrapped around the movement and a hammer –
the principle upon which today’s minute repeaters are still based.
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GP-218 Répétition Minute Carillon Heritage
A
pioneering watchmaker curious to explore the possibilities offered by
the inventions of his era, Jean-François Bautte (1772-1837) began
working from an early stage on the development of chiming mechanisms
that repeated the hours and quarters on demand.
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Girard-Perregaux - A Pocket History 1889 circa La Esmeralda
The precocious and
remarkably talented young Geneva watchmaker also trained in engraving,
jewellery and goldsmithing.
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GP-218 Répétition Minute Carillon Heritage
Passionate
about mechanics and an artist at heart, he was fascinated by the
exploration of automatons, skilfully combining watchmaking, jewellery
and artistic crafts to create music boxes, singing birds and other
fabulous objects that enchanted a wealthy and international clientele.
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GP-218 Répétition Minute Carillon Heritage
Bautte was not only one of the most renowned watchmakers of the era, but
also a visionary entrepreneur. At a time when the custom was to
outsource work using the établissage system involving separate
artisans working on various parts of the watch, he chose to bring all
the watchmaking trades under one roof to control the entire production
process – from design to assembly and decoration, thus inventing the
concept of an integrated Manufacture.
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GP-218 Répétition Minute Carillon Heritage
Building on this heritage and faithful to this vision, Manufacture
Girard-Perregaux has continued to perfect and refine its creations with
the development of minute repeaters and chimes (cathedral and carillon)
combining different tones.
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Constant Girard (1825-1903), who founded Girard-Perregaux with his wife Marie Perregaux (1831-1912);
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and “La Esmeralda”, the Maison’s award-winning pocket watch that canonised the three gold bridges design.
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by Constant Girard-Perregaux and his son Constant Girard-Gallet during
the 19th century gave rise to alarm watches, Grande Sonnerie models and a
number of timepieces combining minute repeaters with complications such
as chronographs or complete calendars with moon-phase displays.
In 1996, Girard-Perregaux combined a minute repeater and tourbillon for
the first time in a wristwatch, a grand complication that has also been
part of the brand’s DNA since its inception. The miniaturised
20th-century minute repeater could now be worn on the wrist in a
water-resistant case, whose small size called for new developments in
acoustics.
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Equipped with a Westminster chime reproducing the carillon’s
four-note melody (G, D, E and C), the Opera I and II collections require
expertise and know-how possessed by only the great movement
Manufactures. The extremely complex movement must be assembled, tested,
adjusted and reassembled multiple times without damaging the components. For
over two centuries, Girard-Perregaux has been refining this horological
complication - technically and aesthetically — to bring it into the
modern era.
Each timepiece represents the encounter between centuries-old heritage and contemporary engineering.
A CONCENTRATED BLEND OF INNOVATIONS
DEDICATED TO SOUND
Acoustic performance lies at the heart
of the development of Calibre GP9530, a masterpiece of watchmaking
architecture combining a chiming mechanism, a tourbillon and a
micro-rotor winding mechanism within an openworked movement.
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The
quest for a perfectly clear, vibrant sound entailed developments
marking a new stage in the history of chiming watches within the
Manufacture. Every technical choice was made with the aim of optimising
the final quality of the chiming mechanism.
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Its
development was guided by a determination to achieve pure tone,
effective vibration propagation and optimal case acoustics while
eliminating unwanted noise.
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The
plate and bridges are made of titanium, a light, rigid material that
facilitates the propagation of vibrations throughout the movement. The
mainplate itself has been secured to the case to ensure that these
vibrations are transmitted – without any loss – from the movement to the
rose gold case of the Flying Bridges Minute Repeater.
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A
domed sapphire crystal on either side of the case amplifies the
crystal-clear melody produced by the hammers striking the gongs on the
dial side.
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To avoid any noise or interference that might be detrimental
to sound purity, the gongs and the gong stud are made from a single
piece of metal and the centrifugal strikework regulator has been moved
to the back of the movement.
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Finally, the jewelfitted white gold
micro-rotor of the new selfwinding system oscillates in complete
silence.
WHEN HERITAGE MEETS
THE HERE AND NOW
A Manufacture known for its
movementmaking excellence, Girard-Perregaux has also established itself
in the realm of design since the 19th century. The revolutionary, now
iconic,
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La Esmeralda and its
Three Gold Bridges revealed and magnified
functional elements to create an unmistakable visual signature in the
mid-
1800s. Since then, the conceptualisation of a movement and its
aesthetics have formed a cohesive whole within which form and function
are inseparable. The balance, symmetry and refinement devoted to the
decoration of each component are part of a heritage that has been
passed down throughout the history of
Girard-Perregaux.
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Crafted
in pink gold, the three stylised Flying Bridges (the third is at the
rear of the movement) support an exceptionally elegant, airy structure
in which the chiming mechanism and tourbillon appear to be levitating.
The same demand for balance prevails on the caseback, where the new
self-winding system mirrors the barrel to ensure perfect symmetry.
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To
honour the watchmaker who crafted this outstanding timepiece, a small
plate bearing this artisan’s initials has been subtly incorporated into
the skeletonised calibre as a discreet signature of the work
accomplished. No less than
1,340 hand-polished chamfers (including
295
interior angles) make light an essential component of the
GP9530
calibre’s design.
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Adopted
by
Girard-Perregaux since the
19th century, the lyre-shaped tourbillon
cage acts as a small seconds dial with its own small hand.
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Like the
Three
Bridges and their arrowshaped ends – picked up on the hammers and
springs of the
Minute Repeater, on the oscillating weight of the winding
system and on the new slide-piece serving to activate the chime – it
embodies a living heritage that has been passed down from generation to
generation within the Manufacture.
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Collection BRIDGES Grand Complications
Model: Grand Complications Minute Repeater Flying Bridges
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Reference: 99840-52-2013-5CC
CASE
Material: Pink Gold
Diameter: 46.00 mm
Height: 17.90 mm
Glass: box-type glare-proofed sapphire crystal
Case-back: box-type glare-proofed sapphire crystal
MOVEMENT
Calibre GP9530
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Reference: Number GP9530
Mechanical self-winding Manufacture movement with white gold micro-rotor
Total diameter: 43.55 mm (17’’’)
Number of parts: 475
Number of jewels: 47
Frequency (Hz): 21 600 vph (3 Hz)
Power reserve: min. 60 hours
Functions: minute repeater, tourbillon, hours, minutes, small seconds on the tourbillon
Complication
Hours and Minutes, Minute Repeater, Small Seconds On The Tourbillon, Tourbillon
Oscillating weight: White gold micro-rotor
Total height: 10.75
DIAL
Pink gold inner bezel ring.
Applied hour-markers enhanced with blue-emission luminescent material
Hands: pink gold openworked hands enhanced with blue-emission luminescent material
Water resistance: 30 meters (3 ATM)
STRAP
Material: black rubber with a fabric effect
Clasp: pink gold triple folding clasp
🔴Price: CHF 530’000 / USD 590’000 / EUR 588'000 / GBP 490'000💰
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