Girard-Perregaux brings the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges into the permanent line

Girard-Perregaux has brought the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges into its permanent collection, a year after the model appeared as a limited edition during Dubai Watch Week. The new reference adds rose gold accents across the dial, replacing the monochromatic look of the original launch.

The price is unchanged. Girard-Perregaux lists the watch at EUR 178,000, CHF 162,000 or USD 182,000, the same figures asked for the 2025 limited edition that has now rolled into the main catalogue with no cap on production.

Most of the casing stays in stainless steel, from the case middle to the caseback. What frames the sapphire crystal up top is the house's octagonal bezel, and on this edition it is crafted in white gold rather than the warmer metal now found on the dial.

The barrel-shaped case keeps its sporty proportions: 41mm across and 10.85mm thick, with vertically brushed flanks meeting polished bevels on the sides. It remains one of the earliest luxury sports watches of its kind, a lineage Girard-Perregaux started with the Laureato in 1975.

That 1975 debut came three years after the genre-defining integrated sports watch arrived in 1972, and the Three Gold Bridges concept itself reaches back to 1867 and a pocket watch later popularised as La Esmeralda. The new model folds both histories into one case.

The main technical change from the limited edition is water resistance, raised from 30m to 50m. Everything else on the movement side carries over intact, so the openworked layout a collector saw in 2025 is the same one arriving on a bracelet this year.

What changed on the dial

The warmth comes from three places. The angled inner flange is still circular and brushed, but its applied markers are now rose gold and filled with Super-LumiNova. The hands keep the same shape and shift to the same warm metal.

The finishing touch is the trio of Neo Bridges themselves, now rose gold instead of white gold. They hold the movement's symmetric architecture: barrel and micro-rotor at twelve, the gear train and hands in the middle, and a tourbillon at six.

That balance demands finishing on a serious scale. Girard-Perregaux counts 418 hand-polished bevels and 362 inner angles across the entire movement, figures that explain why the openworked dial reads as a display case rather than a face.

Under the caseback is the in-house calibre GP9620, which pairs a one-minute tourbillon with an automatic winding system set into the top of the movement. A platinum micro-rotor hides beneath the barrel, where it stores enough energy to run for 55 hours.

The three-gold-bridge design is repeated on the reverse, so the calibre is unmistakably GP from either side. Its lyre-shaped tourbillon cage, another house signature, is cut from lightweight titanium and carries a small hand to mark the running seconds.

This reference joins the sportier end of a maison better known in horology for its complications than its integrated bracelets. Girard-Perregaux has spent decades building tourbillons and openworked calibres, and the Laureato family is where that work meets a daily-wear sports watch.

The brand keeps its recommended retail prices on record alongside the story behind each collection, and the Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges now carries one of the higher figures in the current line. It is well above the simpler time-and-date Laureato Fifty that marked the collection's 50th anniversary in 2025.

On the wrist it ships on a stainless steel bracelet with a micro-adjustment system offering a 4mm comfort release, so the warm metal stays on the dial where it belongs and the bracelet stays steel. The vertical alignment of the movement gives the piece its symmetry.

For anyone weighing solid gold against gold plating in a purchase at this level, the distinction matters. The rose elements here are applied metal on a steel watch, a deliberate contrast to full-gold cases that would push the price several multiples higher.

The Limited Edition wording disappears and the waiting list goes with it, even as the 55-hour reserve and titanium cage stay exactly as they were.

What has not been disclosed is how the wider Laureato Fifty collection evolves next. The brand says nothing about additional metals or sizes, so the only stated next step is availability through its own boutiques and authorised dealers at the unchanged price.