Girard-Perregaux Brings Back the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges for Good

Last year’s Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges was a numbered release shown at Dubai Watch Week, a side project to the time-and-date Laureato Fifty that marked the collection’s 50th birthday. Looks like it was a pretty popular watch, because Girard-Perregaux is now making it a permanent staple in the regular catalogue. Well, with a few changes. Now the bridges, markers and hands are rose gold where the original was all white metal.

The case is 41mm wide and 10.85mm thick, with a steel middle and caseback under an octagonal white gold bezel. Flat surfaces are brushed, the side bevels polished, and there’s sapphire crystals front and back. Water resistance goes up from 30 to 50 meters. Still low for a sports watch, but a major improvement.

There isn’t much of a dial. You look straight into the movement: barrel and micro-rotor up top, gear train through the middle, tourbillon at six, all held by three horizontal Neo Bridges, now solid rose gold. A brushed sloped flange carries applied rose gold markers with Super-LumiNova, and the pencil hands match.

Inside is the in-house calibre GP9620-2856, with 303 parts, 33 jewels, 21,600 vph and 55 hours of power reserve. The platinum micro-rotor sits under the barrel, so nothing blocks the view from the back, where the three-bridge layout is repeated. The tourbillon cage is titanium in GP’s lyre shape and has a small hand for running seconds. GP says they have 418 hand-polished bevels and 362 inner angles across the calibre. It comes on an integrated steel bracelet with a triple-folding clasp and up to 4mm of fine adjustment.

This new Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges has the reference number 99112-58-3619-1CM and is available now at a pretty hefty €178,000. See more on the Girard-Perregaux website.