History of Girard-Perregaux Timepieces Organization
August 13, 2008 | Filed Under Tourism | No CommentsThe watches by Girard Perregaux are known as a great combination of watchmaking traditions with the modern innovations and attractive classical design. The ways of the firm are the same to mark its stability and respectability no matter how many years have passed.
The story of the firm began as the Swiss watchmaker Francois Bautte started creating his watches. But it changed in 1856 as the organization was taken over by the family of another timepiece-maker Girard Perregaux who continued creating watches.
The timepieces of the new organization were unique as they had very level case. The idea gave way to the appearance of many watchmaking traditions. Those days it was general to wear pocket watches so it was quite a revolutionary idea of the watchmaker to create wrist timepieces in series in 1880.
Gyromatic happened to be the 1st original model of the watchmaker. The replica watches included the mechanism with big frequency. In some period of time there came the 1st quartz mechanism with frequency of 32,768 Hertz, which later became the norm followed all over the world. For those years it seemed quite outstanding to feature electronics into classical watches, which was made by Girard Perregaux in his “Equation Espace Perpetuelle” watch. As in the 2nd half of the twentieth century the economical crisis started, innovations of Perregaux helped him keep his business and enjoy stability. Continue reading History of Girard-Perregaux Timepieces Organization…