The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Watch Review

The Girard-Perregaux  Laureato Watch Review

The Girard-Perregaux  Laureato Watch Review

Introduced in 1975

The Girard-Perregaux Laureato claims a location among its decade’s legendary luxury sports watches, alongside other such ’70s introductions because the Patek Philippe Nautilus and Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Girard-Perregaux has released numerous revamped versions from the Laureato within the years since - with quarta movement movements, chronograph functions, even tourbillons - as well as the latest one, debuting at Baselworld 2016 in March, the Swiss brand returns towards the stylishly simple look that first made the Laureato a success.

The brand new Girard-Perregaux Laureato 

Restricted to 225 pieces in homage towards the brand’s 225th anniversary in 2016 - has got the stainless-steel situation with octagonal in shape bezel that identified the initial timepiece, combined with the seamlessly integrated flexible bracelet (updated here having a folding clasp and using subtly contrasting satin-brushed and polished finishing around the links).

The Girard-Perregaux  Laureato Watch Review

The situation is 41 mm across, a discount in the bigger sizes of latest Laureatos. The dial also hearkens to the initial 1975 model, using its small Clou de Paris checkerboard pattern and baton-formed hour and minute hands. Both your hands are given Super-LumiNova, and also the dial will come in two colors, silver and deep blue.

Powering the 2016 form of the Laureato 

And visual via a azure caseback, another concession to modern tastes - is Girard-Perregaux’s manufacture Caliber GP03300-0030 (below), a self-winding movement with 27 jewels, a 28,800-vph frequency, along with a 46-hour power reserve.