How Girard-Perregaux Watches Brand Started
The timepieces by Girard Perregaux are known as a unique union of watchmaking standards with the modern techniques and attractive classical design. And though the time flies by, the image of the brand remains as it was as a sign of high quality and stability.
Jean Francois Bautte, a Swiss timepiece-maker was the 1st to manufacture these timepieces, so the company was started by him. It happened so that in 1856 Girard and Marie Perregaux took over the organization and Girard, the watchmaker, continued creating watches.
As the firm appeared in the watch market, it brought out its unique idea to produce watches with a very flat case. The idea led to the appearance of numerous company traditions. One of the most significant creations by Girard Perregaux was as he began manufacturing wristwatches in series in 1880 as in that time pocket timepieces were general.
So Girard Perregaux went on with the first timepiece mechanism with high frequency that got the name swiss replica watch Gyromatic. The company founded a world known norm by producing the 1st quartz mechanism having the frequency of 32,768 Hertz. “Equation Espace Perpetuelle”, as Perregaux called his creation, was completed with microelectronics incorporated into classical timepieces. That was something outstanding for that time. In fact it’s only innovations of Perregaux that helped him survive the period of economic crisis at the second part of the twentieth century and maintain his company going. (more…)