GIRARD-PERREGAUX – BRIDGES Grand Complications Minute Repeater Flying Bridges

 

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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The level of mastery achieved in this field 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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GIRARD-PERREGAUX – LAUREATO Fifty Edition

 

GIRARD-PERREGAUX – LAUREATO 39мм Fifty Gold and Steel Edition - 2025

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LAUREATO FIFTY:
50 YEARS OF REINVENTED HERITAGE

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Fifty years ago, Girard-Perregaux unveiled the Laureato, a watch that would mark one of the major chapters in the history of contemporary watchmaking. Entirely designed, developed and produced in-house, it entered the world of elegant sports watches with integrated bracelets and a chronometer-certified manufacture quartz movement. 

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In this anniversary year, the brand is celebrating its half-century with a limited edition of 200: the Laureato FIFTY. With features that make it the quintessential Laureato, it pays vibrant tribute to the past while projecting Girard-Perregaux into the future.

A VISIONARY MANUFACTURING SPIRIT AND IDENTITY

Since 1791,  Girard-Perregaux  has forged its identity around a dual commitment: to create watches with a distinctive design and the movements that power them. 

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In a watchmaking landscape built on the tradition of établissage and its network of subcontractors, the brand distinguished itself early on by a very high level of integration and the adoption of the manufacture model from the start of the industrial revolution in the late 18th century.

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It was one of the first watchmaking companies to decide to bring all stages of production in-house. In La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the heart of the Neuchâtel mountains, the company crafts not only creations bearing its name, but also the movements it supplies to prestigious customers, with the extreme care typical of Haute Horlogerie.

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The history of the Laureato continues this tradition of excellence. In 1966, Girard-Perregaux opened a Research and Development department to explore the potential of quartz. Five years later, what would soon become its Design Office unveiled the calibre GP350: it has a frequency of 32,768 Hz, which has since become the universal standard in the watchmaking industry. 

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Girard-Perregaux was far ahead of the quartz revolution. In 1977, two years after the launch of the Laureato, 83% of the quartz-related patents registered with COSC came from the company. The first Laureato was born of this expertise.

LAUREATO:
MANIFESTO OF A NEW ELEGANCE

The Laureato immediately stood out for its unique visual identity: an octagonal bezel set on a circular base, a tonneau-shaped case, an integrated bracelet...  

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 Designed by GP’s in-house designers, its fluid, architectural silhouette   transgresses the codes of traditional watchmaking without breaking them. 

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In contrast to its contemporaries, such as Gérald Genta’s Royal Oak (1972), which is all angles and screws, or the Nautilus (1976), with its roundness inspired by a porthole but also by the traditional “cushion” shape, it favours precision, balance and elegance. 

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From 1975, it embodied a new, more refined and subtle luxury. It was not a response to trends – it was a trendsetter.

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“This new creation embodies both fidelity to the historic design and the integration of the most advanced technologies”

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This philosophy is now reflected in the Laureato FIFTY. Directly inspired by the original model, this new creation embodies both fidelity to the historic design and the integration of the most advanced technologies. 

LAUREATO FIFTY:
REFINED DESIGN, ENHANCED TECHNOLOGY

Housed in a new case measuring 39 mm in diameter and 9.8 mm thick, the Laureato FIFTY, true to its origins, draws on the nobility of the material: the combination of steel and 3N yellow gold. 

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This combination is reminiscent of the first bicolour model from 1975, but with a contemporary edge. 

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The tonneau case has been reworked:  sharper angles, more pronounced bevels, even smoother integration of the bracelet. The iconic octagonal bezel alternates between satin and polished finishes, creating a subtle and sophisticated play of light. 

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The sapphire crystals, flat on both the dial and case-back sides, contribute to the visual finesse of the whole. An unusual detail on a piece of this type: it is water-resistant to 150 metres.

“A level of finishing and detail that testifies to absolute respect for the codes of Haute Horlogerie” 

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The deep sunray grey dial features a Clous de Paris pattern enhanced by indexes and hands which match the 3N gold of the watch. 

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The central seconds hand is balanced by a counterweight in the shape of a double arrow, the GP emblem, and an aperture at 3 o’clock displays the date on a disc whose colour matches that of the dial – a level of finishing and detail that testifies to absolute respect for the codes of Haute Horlogerie.

INTEGRATED BRACELET:BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ERGONOMICS

The steel and yellow gold bracelet is in keeping Twith the original design. Its complexity is expressed in a tapered design whose steel ‘H’links become progressively thinner towards the clasp. 

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These links, which are slightly shorter on this new model, allow the bracelet to fit more closely to the curve of the wrist. The y also feature a half-link adjustment for optimal comfort. The central links, in yellow gold, are slightly more domed than those in steel, playing on volumes and light. 

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The triple folding clasp features the GP logo, also engraved on the inner blades. The octagonal push-pieces on the clasp echo the bezel and reinforce the coherence of the design. 

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The clasp also incorporates an innovative fine adjustment system that enables the bracelet to be precisely adjusted by 4 mm, which is particularly useful in hot weather –a functional, refined and discreet detail.

THE ART OF THE MOVEMENT:
THE NEW CALIBRE GP4800

The birth of a new calibre is always an event, finishes reveal its full beauty. But beyond its even for such a prolific manufacturer as aesthetic and technical characteristics, the Girard-Perregaux. 

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Through its see-through GP4800 is also a historic milestone, since case-back, the Laureato  FIFTY reveals it is the first  “simple”  movement  –  hours/ the GP4800.  

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The fruit of several years’  minutes/seconds/date – whose construction is development, this new automatic movement inspired by what is now the Girard-Perregaux combines finesse, performance and reliability emblem: the Three Bridges. 

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A contemporary thanks to its silicon escapement and variable expression of GP savoir-faire, nurtured by inertia balance. 

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Its design called on the full more than two centuries of exacting standards expertise of the Manufacture’s watchmakers, and inventiveness, the finest architecture with particular attention paid to longevity and in mechanical watchmaking is finally being energy efficiency. 

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No fewer than 10 different extended beyond the tourbillon... 

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Collection LAUREATO 

Model: LAUREATO FIFTY Edition

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 Reference: 81008-63-3412-1CM

Case
   Material: 3N Yellow gold and steel
   Diameter: 39 mm
   Thickness: 9.80 mm
   Glass: anti-reflective sapphire crystal
   Case-back: sapphire crystal
   Water-resistant to 150 meters (15 ATM)
Dial
Sunray grey with a "Clous de Paris" pattern, 
Hands: ‘baton’ type 3N gold-plated pink gold hands with luminescent material (white
emission), 3N gold-plated central second hand
Movement
Reference: Calibre GP4800

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Self-winding mechanical movement with
3N yellow gold oscillating weight
Diameter: 25.60 mm (11 1/2’’’)
Height: 4.28 mm
Frequency: 28'800 vph – (4 Hz)
Number of parts: 163
Number of jewels: 19
Power reserve: min. 55 hours
Functions
    Hours, minutes, central second, date
Strap and buckle
Material:  3N yellow gold
Buckle: Triple folding with up to 4mm of fine adjustment

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🔰Edition - ✅ Only ❱❱❱ 200 pieces
🔴Price: CHF 25’000 / USD 28’320 / EUR 28'100 / GBP 22'700💰

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Press release - 2025
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Girard-Perregaux Press Contacts:
Lucie Notari
Head of Communication and Brand Image
+41 (0)79 63 19 62 62
lucie.notari@girard-perregaux.com
press@girard-perregaux.com

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