Girard Perregaux News
Wednesday 26 October, 2011 - 12:00 PM EDT
Girard-Perregaux Celebrating 220 years
A worldwide travelling exhibition
To celebrate its 220th Anniversary, Girard-Perregaux has set up a worldwide travelling exhibition. This exhibition will feature exceptional timepieces from the haute horlogerie museum collection and of rare contemporary watches.
In a display that will make this one the most important set of Girard-Perregaux timepieces ever showcase outside of Switzerland, this exhibition will take the visitor through centuries of evolution in the art of measuring time while establishing an interesting link with major events, public figures, and works of art which have marked world history.
One of the highlights of the exhibition, named “A tale of Inspiration - Unveiling 220 years of watchmaking art”, will be the “Esmeralda”, a masterpiece by Constant Girard-Perregaux. The Esmeralda is the most famous edition of the Tourbillion with its three golden bridges awarding it a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889.
The traveling exhibition has already made stop in Singapore, at the Art and Science Museum from September 16th to September 18th, and in Shangai, at the Sinan Mansion from October 20th to October 23rd. The last stop will in New York and it will take place at the Girard-Perregaux Boutique on Madison Avenue from November 18th to November 26th.
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Monday 24 October, 2011 - 12:00 PM EDT
Girard-Perregaux presents new WW.TC Limited Edition
Thomas Erber’s Cabinet de Curiosités
Girard-Perregaux is presenting an exceptional limited edition of only five pieces as part of its ww.tc world time collection for Thomas Erber’s second Cabinet de Curiosités. This special edition will be on show exclusively at Browns in London from November 21st 2011.
Thomas Erber’s Cabinet de Curiosités is an event that will run for the second time this year aiming to redefine luxury by regularly offering unique or very limited edition pieces, created especially for an exclusive occasion. It provides a showcase for talented creators and bold brands characterised by their unique know-how and their independence.
The incredibly limited edition of Girard-Perregaux’s emblematic world time chronograph will boast a style based on contrasts. Manufactured for the first time in a white ceramic case and a smoked sapphire crystal, the enigmatic style of the ww.tc Cabinet de Curiosités continues on the case-back, with its tinted sapphire glass displaying the self-winding Girard-Perregaux GP03387 movement.
Technical details:
Reference No: 49820-32-788SFK6A
Movement: Mechanical with automatic winding. Calibre 13”’ Girard-Perregaux GP03387, 63 jewels
Power reserve: minimum 46 hours
Functions: hours, minutes, small seconds, world time with day/night indicator, fly-back chronograph, date
Case: white ceramic (inner titanium container), bezel in steel and white ceramic. Push pieces and crowns covered in black rubber.
Diameter: 43 mm
Case-back: Black DLC-coated titanium closed with 6 screws, tinted sapphire glass
Bracelet: Black rubber strap
Buckle: Folding clasp in black DLC-coated titanium
Water resistance: 100 meters or 330 feet.
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Tuesday 04 October, 2011 - 09:50 AM EDT
Girard-Perregaux - Vintage 1945 Tourbillon with three gold Bridges.
Limited Edition in White Gold
Girard-Perregaux - Vintage 1945 Tourbillon
Girard-Perregaux presents a limited edition of only fifty pieces of the classc Vintage 1945 Collection. This time around, the watch is a monochrome assembly in white gold and it defines Haute Horlorgie with its three arrow-shaped bridges that allow the movement to be seen.
The automatic movement of this Vintage 1945 Girard-Perregaux is powered by the 9600C house movement, and the Tourbillon complication is made of 72 components that are perfectly assembled within a diameter of 12 millimetres. This limited edition timepiece of only 50 numbered pieces is presented in a white gold case and a black hand-sewn alligator strap.
Technical Details:
White Gold Case
Diameter: 36.10 mm x 35.25 mm
Glass: anti-reflective sapphire
Case-back: secured by four screws, anti-reflective sapphire glass
Water-resistance: 30 metres
Hand-engraved individual numbering
Girard-Perregaux 9600C movement
Automatic winding mechanism with platinum micro-rotor mounted on the barrel arbor, Girard-Perregaux patent
Functions: hours, minutes, small seconds on the Tourbillon
Dimensions: 28.60 mm x 30.30 mm
Total thickness: 6.25 mm
Frequency: 21,600 vibrations/hour (3 Hz)
Jewels: 31
Power reserve: minimum 48 hours
Details of components
Total number: 257
Balance wheel: variable inertia with gold regulating screws (diameter 8.35 mm)
Balance spring: Breguet, Philips terminal curve
Plate: rhodium-plated, vertical guilloche above, circular-grained below, hand-polished bevelling
Barrel: cover with engraving and circular guilloche, circular-grained below
Gold Bridge: - barrel, centre and tourbillon bridges rhodium-plated gold, hand-polished bevelling, satin-finish top and rim
- 6 countersunk screws per bridge, hand-polished finish with bevelled rim and slot
- 4 dome-headed cylindrical pins per bridge, hand-polished finish
Gear-train bridge: hand-polished chamfering and recesses, vertical guilloche
Identity plates: - pink gold, rhodium-plated
- drawn-out finish, hand-bevelled and engraved with the movement’s number and reference
Tourbillon: - 72 components, total weight 0.3 grams
- one rotation per minute
- upper and lower carriages bevelled and polished by hand
- carriage balanced with gold regulating screws
- escapement and anchor bridges bevelled and polished by hand
Black, Hand-Sewn Alligator-Skin Strap
Folding clasp in white gold
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