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Welcome to Watch-Guy Watches, GQ’s monthly curation of high-end timepieces for the true watch nerds among us. This June, ...

The Girard-Perregaux Laureato is turning 50 this year ✓ The perfect moment to reinvent that watch and maybe even the brand✓ ...

In 1976, the first Casquette watch was created with a quartz movement and a unique tubular LED display, setting it apart from traditional two-handed watches of the time. Girard-Perregaux only produced ...

“Christopher Ward uses both horology and sorcery to make watches because an ordinary watch company shouldn’t be able to sell such complex, innovative, and gorgeous timepieces at such a ...

Another thing going for Girard-Perregaux was it was one of the pioneers of quartz technology. “When GP launched the first Laureato in 1975, it was in quartz, unlike AP,” says Seck.

The Kaiser chose Girard-Perregaux because it was (and is) one of the oldest and most celebrated watch companies in existence, having been founded in 1791. But Girard-Perregaux didn’t become ...

To that point, the brand launched Switzerland’s first serially produced quartz watch in 1971, and its frequency of 32,768 Hz, as set by the brand, was subsequently adopted as the universal standard ...

The Manufacture began its activities in 1791, meaning that Girard-Perregaux as it now stands is grounded on an over two-century heritage. Jean-François Bautte, born March 22nd 1772, initially trained ...