When Girard-Perregaux became the Atlassian Williams Formula 1 team’s watch partner earlier this year, the announcement came without a watch, just a philosophy the two called “Pure Purpose.” Now the products have arrived. The Swiss manufacturer and the F1 team have revealed their first two timepieces, the Laureato Williams Edition 42mm and the Laureato Chronograph Williams Edition 42mm, and they make good on the partnership with restraint rather than spectacle.
Girard-Perregaux and the Atlassian Williams F1 Team have unveiled their first two watches, the Laureato Williams Edition 42mm and the Laureato Chronograph Williams Edition 42mm, both 42mm steel with a blue Clous de Paris dial inspired by the 2026 Williams FW48 race car.
There’s a neat symmetry underpinning the collaboration. Girard-Perregaux introduced the Laureato, its octagonal integrated-bracelet sports watch, in 1975; Williams began racing in Formula 1 in 1977, two years apart, and both have evolved continuously since. The Williams Editions bring those histories together, but quietly.
Both watches keep the Laureato’s signatures, the octagonal bezel, integrated steel bracelet, slim profile, and alternating polished and satin finishes, and add the racing references with a light touch: a blue Clous de Paris dial drawn from the 2026 Williams FW48 race car, red accents echoing its livery keyline, a discreet Williams “W” at 12 o’clock, and a metallized Williams emblem on the sapphire caseback.
The two models differ mainly in complication. The Laureato Williams Edition 42mm is the purer expression, a time-and-date watch on the automatic GP1800 caliber, a slim 3.97mm movement good for a 54-hour reserve. The Laureato Chronograph Williams Edition 42mm is the more track-appropriate of the pair, adding an elapsed-time chronograph, the natural meeting point between watchmaking and racing, on the 419-component GP3300 caliber, its three counters framed by rhodium-plated rings and topped with a red-tipped central seconds hand. Both are 42mm in steel, water-resistant to 100 meters, and finished, front and back, to the standard Girard-Perregaux applies to parts most owners never see: Côtes de Genève, snailing, bevelling, and more, visible through the sapphire casebacks.
The watches cap a busy stretch for Girard-Perregaux, which has released four new calibers in the past year and, at Geneva Watch Days, unveiled the five-signature Laureato Fifty Tourbillon. Restrained, well-finished, and rooted in a real historical parallel, the Williams Editions are a promising first lap for a partnership the two sides say they intend to run for years.
