Girard-Perregaux watches

Girard-Perregaux traces its origins to 1791, when the Geneva watchmaker and goldsmith Jean-François Bautte opened his own company. The watchmaker Constant Girard founded Girard & Cie in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1852, married Marie Perregaux in 1854, and the Girard-Perregaux manufacture followed in 1856. In 1906 Constant Girard-Gallet acquired the Bautte house and merged it into the company, which is still based in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Constant Girard presented a tourbillon under three parallel bridges in 1867, patented the design in the United States in 1884, and in 1889 won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle with a version whose three bridges were made of gold. The Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges remains the brand's emblematic model. The Laureato, an integrated-bracelet watch first made with a quartz movement, was introduced in 1975. Other collections include 1966, Vintage 1945 and Cat's Eye.

Girard-Perregaux belongs to the Sowind Group, which was a subsidiary of Kering from 2011 until Kering sold it to Sowind's management in 2022.