BRAND HIGHLIGHTS : The Tourbillon Principle as built in Gerard Perragaux Seafaring Limited Collection

Haute horlogerie

Quintessence of the art of watchmaking

Complicated watchmaking is the quintessence of the art of watchmaking.

For over two centuries now, GIRARD-PERREGAUX has won renown for its many remarkable creations, among them the emblematic Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges.

From the research and development stage right through to the final adjustments made by our master watchmakers, the Manufacture continues to enrich its heritage through its Haute Horlogerie collection.

The Tourbillon Principle

The purpose of the tourbillon is to compensate for the effects of gravity on a mechanical watch. When it is in a vertical position, a mechanical watch’s regulating organ – the balance, balance spring and escapement – undergoes imperceptible errors of rate with each oscillation, due to the effects of gravity.
By housing the regulating mechanism in a cage rotating on its own axis, generally once a minute, a variety of vertical positions results, which compensate for each other, producing a very constant average rate and extreme running precision.

Its manufacture, one of the most complex and delicate, necessitates a perfect mastery of watchmaking and its techniques.

The Tourbillon with gold bridge uniqueness

Two fundamental elements make the Tourbillon with three gold bridges a unique watch among all others, ancient and modern.

o Without doubt no other watch manufactured during our times goes back as far: the first tourbillon with three gold bridges dates from 1889.
o The movement is not only a technical component of the watch, it is also part of its aesthetic appearance, to the point of being a mark of recognition.

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