Girard-Perregaux - Jewelry

Girard-Perregaux (G-P) is a Swiss manufacturer of complex timepieces. The company can trace its origins to 1791 making it one of the older manufactures within the industry. The current name, however, would not appear until 1854 when watchmaker Constant Girard married Marie Perregaux and the modern company was born. G-P is located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. G-P is credited with being the first manufacturer of what has become the wristwatch.

G-P is well known within the world of horology for the “Tourbillon Under Three Gold Bridges” or Tourbillon Sous Trois Ponts d'Or. The Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon, produced initially in the later 19th century, proved so accurate and of such perfect design that, after an unbeaten streak of 12 years, it was banned from competing in Observatory accuracy competitions in 1901. With the resurrection of the Swiss mechanical watch industry in the early 1980's, and with it the demand for haute horlogerie worldwide, the Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon was recently re-introduced to G-P's lineup and modern versions, based on the original design, are available for purchase today.