Girard-Perregaux gives the 39 mm Laureato Fifty a tourbillon and micro-rotor

Girard-Perregaux has added a more technical, more visibly architectural chapter to the Laureato Fifty with a 39 mm tourbillon powered by a micro-rotor movement.

The Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor 39 mm matters because it draws two of the manufacture’s strongest signatures into one watch. The case language remains unmistakably Laureato, while the tourbillon bridge brings the visual grammar of Girard-Perregaux’s historic Bridges watches directly to the dial side.

At a glance

A Laureato shaped by Girard-Perregaux’s Bridges language

The Laureato has always been one of Girard-Perregaux’s most recognisable designs, built around its octagonal bezel, integrated profile and textured dial tradition.

For this new 39 mm model, the familiar Laureato framework is paired with an arrow-shaped bridge placed prominently over the tourbillon.

That bridge is more than decoration. It reaches back to 1867, when Constant Girard turned functional movement architecture into a defining visual code for the manufacture.

The result is a watch that doesn’t simply add a high complication to the Laureato. It folds one of Girard-Perregaux’s oldest design ideas into one of its most commercially and culturally important modern collections.

Two dial executions with distinct character

Girard-Perregaux is offering the Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor 39 mm in two dial executions, each giving the watch a different temperament.

The blue version uses Grand Feu enamel over a Clous de Paris motif, allowing the Laureato’s traditional pyramidal texture to remain part of the composition beneath the enamel surface.

Grand Feu enamel is a demanding craft, involving powdered silica and oxides fired at around 800 degrees Celsius. The appeal is not just colour depth, but the way enamel holds light with a glassy permanence that conventional finishes rarely match.

The second execution uses 18K rose gold for a warmer, more tonal expression. It shifts the watch away from the cool brilliance of blue enamel and toward a richer, more precious-metal presence.

Both versions preserve the Laureato’s Clous de Paris identity, which is important. Even with a tourbillon commanding attention, the watch still reads as a Laureato first.

The GP8410 calibre and the value of restraint

Inside the watch is the manufacture GP8410, a new calibre that continues Girard-Perregaux’s recent run of in-house movement development.

It is the fourth new manufacture movement introduced since Marc Michel-Amadry became managing director in February 2025, a notable pace for a high-end watchmaker with a deep archive and a demanding collector base.

The micro-rotor layout is a particularly fitting choice here. It allows automatic winding without the visual bulk of a full central rotor, preserving the sense of refinement expected in a tourbillon watch.

That matters because the Laureato is not a dress watch in the traditional sense. It has to balance everyday-wear geometry with high-complication theatre, and the GP8410 gives the model a movement concept that supports both sides of that brief.

Details & Specifications

The Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor 39 mm is likely to appeal to collectors who want more than a sports watch with a celebrated case shape.

Its strength lies in how naturally it brings together Laureato design, Bridges architecture and a contemporary manufacture movement, without making any one element feel forced.