Bridging Haute Watchmaking and Heritage:      The Girard-Perregaux 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge

Bridging Haute Watchmaking and Heritage: The Girard-Perregaux 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge

Adrienne Faurote
By Adrienne Faurote February 14, 2013

Since 1791, Girard-Perregaux has been a visionary in the world of watchmaking, creating timepieces that represent the brands’ history and expertise while introducing stylish and avant-garde pieces.

One of the most recent launches from Girard-Perregaux is the 1966 Tourbillon with Gold Bridge. This stunning timepiece features a 40mm case with anti-glare sapphire crystal and screwed down closed case back. The silvered dial features an elegant sun-burst motif with four applied hour markers at the 12, 3, 6 and 9 hours on the dial along with leaf shape hands marking the hours and minutes. Let’s not forget the tourbillon cage at the 6 o’clock position, which also shows the seconds.  Also on the dial, the engraved Girard-Perregaux logo as well as a “GP” engraved on the watch crown, representing the passion that goes into each timepiece.

The 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge is powered by a Girard-Perregaux 09600 self winding mechanical movement with a 48 hour power reserve. The movement is beautifully hand chamfered and polished with meticulous detail, reminiscent of the technique and craftsmanship of the Girard-Perregaux Maison’s.

The Girard-Perregaux 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge is water resistant to 30m and is shown on both a brown alligator strap for the Rose Gold model and a black alligator strap for the white gold model, along with matching pin buckles.

GPwhite             GPgold

The 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge is part of an extremely limited collection offered by Girard-Perregaux. There are two variations available, one in Pink Gold, which is limited to only 25 pieces and the other is a white gold model which is limited to just 5 pieces.

Both the white gold and pink gold versions of the 1966 Tourbillon With Gold Bridge by Girard-Perregaux will retail for $154,500.00.

Source and photographs are Courtesy of Girard-Perregaux.