Girard-Perregaux’s Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Unites Five of Its Historic Signatures

Girard-Perregaux came to Geneva Watch Days 2026 with a watch that reads like its own summary. The 235-year-old Manufacture used the September fair to unveil the Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor 39mm, a piece built around a single idea: gathering five of the house’s most enduring signatures into one contemporary creation. It is less a new complication than a distillation of everything Girard-Perregaux is.

Five Signatures, One Watch

Those five signatures span more than two centuries. The oldest is the Grand Feu enamel, a decorative art the house has practiced in-house since the days of Jean-François Bautte in the early 1790s, and which appears here as a translucent blue enamel dial. Then come the arrow-shaped Bridges, introduced by Constant Girard in 1867 and often called watchmaking’s first enduring design signature; a version in white gold arches over the tourbillon. The lyre-shaped tourbillon cage, a nineteenth-century Girard-Perregaux hallmark that turns a regulating organ into a piece of sculpture, sits beneath it. The Laureato’s octagonal-on-round architecture, unchanged in spirit since 1975, provides the case. And the Clous de Paris hobnail motif ties it all together, running from the dial across to two white-gold bridges on the movement.

The Engine: Caliber GP8410

Underneath is an entirely new movement, the automatic GP8410, and it is notable on its own terms. It pairs a tourbillon, held beneath a white gold Girard-Perregaux arrow Bridge, with a micro-rotor shaped like the same arrow and cast in platinum and pink gold, a construction that keeps the watch slim: at 10mm thick, it is exceptionally thin for a tourbillon of this complexity. The caliber runs at 3 Hz with a 72-hour power reserve and shows itself through a sapphire caseback. Two dial executions are offered, both in a 39mm steel case on an integrated steel bracelet: the blue Grand Feu enamel and an 18K solid gold rose-toned dial, each carrying the Clous de Paris pattern.

The GP8410 is also the capstone of a remarkable run. In the twelve months since September 2025, Girard-Perregaux has released four entirely new in-house calibers: the GP4800 automatic, the GP9620 Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon, the deeply skeletonized GP9530 Minute Repeater, and now this tourbillon micro-rotor. For an independent Manufacture, that is an unusually productive stretch, and it lands in the same season the brand became the Atlassian Williams Formula 1 team’s watch partner. Girard-Perregaux, in other words, is having a year.

Adrienne Faurote

Editor in Chief · Haute Time

As a former New Yorker, now a “Miamian,” Adrienne Faurote joined Haute Living in August of 2021. She currently serves as the Haute Media Group Editor-in-Chief, overseeing all editorial platforms within the Haute Media Group while also maintaining her role as Fashion, Jewelry & Watch Director. Prior to her position at Haute Living, Faurote was the Market Editor at Marie Claire Magazine US, amassing over ten years in the industry, becoming an authoritative voice in all things fashion, jewelry, and watches.