Girard-Perregaux Brings Rose Gold Warmth to the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges

Girard-Perregaux has given one of its most recognisable modern Laureatos a warmer, more permanent place in the catalogue.

The Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges is now offered as a non-limited model, keeping the openworked tourbillon architecture of the earlier limited edition while shifting the visual tone with rose gold accents across the dial.

It’s a watch built around two Girard-Perregaux signatures at once, pairing the 1970s integrated-sports-watch shape with the maison’s historic three-bridge movement design.

At a glance

• Girard-Perregaux has added the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges to the permanent collection.
• The 41mm stainless steel watch now uses rose gold markers, hands and Neo Bridges, with a white gold octagonal bezel.
• It is priced at EUR 178,000, CHF 162,000 or USD 182,000, matching the 2025 limited edition.

A Laureato with a warmer visual code

The Laureato has always been one of Girard-Perregaux’s most important designs, originally introduced in 1975 as the appetite for integrated-bracelet luxury sports watches was taking shape.

For this new version, the brand keeps the essential Laureato proportions rather disciplined.

The case measures 41mm across and 10.85mm thick, with a stainless steel case middle and caseback, vertically brushed surfaces and polished lateral bevels.

The octagonal bezel remains the architectural anchor of the design, though here it’s executed in white gold rather than steel.

Water resistance has also been increased to 50 metres, a practical improvement over the earlier limited edition’s 30 metres.

The bigger change is tonal rather than structural.

Where the prior model leaned into a more monochromatic execution, this permanent-collection reference introduces rose gold on the applied hour markers, hands and three Neo Bridges.

The angled inner flange stays circular and brushed, while the applied rose gold markers are filled with Super-LumiNova.

The three bridges inside a sports-watch frame

The three-bridge layout is one of Girard-Perregaux’s defining ideas, with roots going back to an 1867 pocket watch and later made famous through La Esmeralda and the Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges.

In the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges, that historic architecture is treated in a contemporary, openworked way.

The layout is strikingly symmetrical, with the barrel and micro-rotor positioned toward the top, the gear train and hands across the centre, and the tourbillon set at 6 o’clock.

Three horizontal Neo Bridges hold the composition together, giving the dial the kind of visual order that makes the technical display feel intentional rather than merely exposed.

The finishing is central to the watch’s identity.

Girard-Perregaux cites 418 hand-polished bevels and 362 inner angles across the movement, details that matter because openworked watches leave little room for unfinished surfaces to hide.

Calibre GP9620 and the tourbillon theatre

The in-house calibre GP9620 is visible through the front and sapphire caseback, and it carries much of the watch’s appeal.

It combines a one-minute tourbillon at 6 o’clock with an automatic winding system integrated at 12 o’clock.

The platinum micro-rotor sits beneath the barrel and helps deliver a 55-hour power reserve.

At the lower end of the movement, the lyre-shaped tourbillon cage is made from lightweight titanium and includes a small hand to indicate running seconds.

The three-bridge motif continues on the back, reinforcing that this isn’t simply a Laureato with a complicated movement dropped inside it.

It’s a deliberate meeting of Girard-Perregaux’s sports-watch case language and its most historically loaded movement architecture.

Details & Specifications

For collectors who find the regular Laureato too understated and the pure haute horlogerie pieces too formal, this sits in a compelling middle ground.

It has the stance of a steel integrated sports watch, but the view through the dial is unmistakably Girard-Perregaux at its most technical and historically self-aware.