Girard-Perregaux has added a haute horlogerie tourbillon to its Laureato Fifty collection, a 39mm model built around an entirely new self-winding caliber, the GP8410. It carries a mostly platinum micro-rotor with a pink gold bridge shaped like the maison's signature arrow, and it marks the brand's fourth new movement in the past year.
The tourbillon cage itself is lyre shaped, a form the maison has used since the 19th century, and it is beneath a white gold bridge that echoes the arrow motif on the automatic winding side. The movement runs at 21,600 vibrations per hour and delivers a 72 hour power reserve, generous for a tourbillon of this size.
What makes the GP8410 notable beyond its complication is its thinness: just 6.1mm. That allows the finished watch to hold a 10mm case profile despite housing a tourbillon and micro-rotor, keeping the Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor within the case dimensions collectors already know from the line.
The steel case measures 39 by 46mm, matching the architecture Girard-Perregaux set with last year's 50th-anniversary limited edition, the release that first introduced this 39mm size alongside the GP4800 automatic caliber. That anniversary edition was followed by permanent steel models with enamel and solid-gold dials, and now this tourbillon extends the same case family further.
Water resistance is rated at 50 meters, and Girard-Perregaux notes that figure is below the time-only Laureato Fifty's rating, a trade-off the brand accepts to keep the case this thin. Through the sapphire case back, two large white gold plates are visible, decorated with the same Clous de Paris hobnail pattern that runs across the dial.
What the two dial options offer
The first dial is an in-house translucent blue grand feu enamel laid over the Clous de Paris pattern, a technique the maison notes has been part of its repertoire since the 1790s, a detail it is highlighting in its 50th-anniversary year.
The second option replaces enamel with a solid 18-karat rose gold dial carrying the same hobnail motif. Both versions share white gold baton indexes and hands filled with blue-glowing lume, and neither carries a date window, keeping the dial symmetrical around the tourbillon aperture.
The watch comes exclusively on an integrated steel H-link bracelet fitted with a butterfly clasp, which includes a 2mm extension on each side for fit adjustment. The octagonal bezel is on its circular base, a shape Girard-Perregaux has used on the Laureato since 1975 and has not altered for this new tourbillon variant.
What the two versions cost
Pricing splits by dial. The blue enamel version retails for €97,200, or $100,000, while the solid gold dial model is priced lower at €92,800, or $95,600. Girard-Perregaux positions both within the range of comparable tourbillon output from independent and manufacture rivals.
Girard-Perregaux, whose watches and their retail pricing we track on our brand page, has built the Laureato Fifty out steadily over the past year: the anniversary limited edition first, then permanent steel models with enamel and solid gold dials, and now this tourbillon. Each step has kept the same 39mm case rather than scaling up for the added complication.
That restraint puts the new piece in company with other recent tourbillon launches we have covered in our style section, including Titoni's ceramic-cased Luxe Tourbillon at CHF 11,900 and Greubel Forsey's 22-piece blue GMT Balancier Convexe, both released into a market where independent brands compete hard on thinness and finishing rather than size.
Girard-Perregaux describes the tourbillon as a natural extension of the Laureato Fifty rather than a departure from it, keeping the octagonal bezel, integrated bracelet and 39mm proportions the line has used since the anniversary edition. The maison frames the added complication as refinement rather than reinvention.
Girard-Perregaux is not disclosing production numbers or a release date for retail availability, and neither figure appears in its own materials on the launch. What the brand has confirmed is the movement, the two dial options and the pricing, leaving supply and rollout timing as the open questions collectors will be watching.
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