It began in Geneva in 1791
But although the name Girard Perregaux is inextricably linked with La Chaux-de-Fonds, the company's history began in Geneva. In 1791, Jean-François Bautte founded a watchmaking workshop there, which soon became not only an internationally renowned manufacturer of luxury watches, but also one of the city's most interesting tourist attractions. With 300 employees and branches in Paris and Florence, it was a truly large company for its time. However, these factories have only borne the name Girard Perregaux since they and their tradition were taken over by this company in 1906.
Constant Girard and Marie Perregaux
The name Girard Perregaux has its origins, just like the watches that still bear it today, in the watchmaking metropolis of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Here, the watchmaker Constant Othenin-Girard founded a watchmaking workshop in 1850 to produce high-precision luxury watches. In 1854, he married Marie Perregaux, whose brother Henri was also one of the best watchmakers in the city, and renamed his company Girard Perregaux in her honor in 1856. Over the next few years, Girard Perregaux repeatedly attracted attention for its first-class development work by winning chronometer competitions.
precision and aesthetics
From the beginning, the combination of precision and aesthetics was Girard Perregaux's greatest strength. Its tourbillon with three golden bridges was both a technical triumph and an incomparably elegant design element that rightly earned it a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1886. It can still be found today in the beautiful wristwatches of Girard Perregaux's Toubillon series. But the company's tireless pursuit of precision continued. For example, the Girard Perregaux 1966 series celebrated another historic moment in the history of watchmaking. In 1966, the company launched a collection of pocket watches with previously unattainable precision in timekeeping thanks to its new high-precision movement with a frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour.
The highest art of watchmaking today as it was then
But it is not only the anniversary models from Girard Perregaux that are among the finest luxury watches in the world. The company has remained true to its goals to this day and is still working on improving its movements and combining them with elegant designs. Every Girard Perregaux watch is a marvel of quality and beauty that is unparalleled. So it is no wonder that numerous famous people, from Pierce Brosnan and Quentin Tarantino to Nicholas Sarkozy, and once Queen Victoria, have chosen Girard Perregaux watch models.
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