Girard-Perregaux unveils the Minute Repeater Flying Bridges, powered by the new in-house GP9530 caliber. It unites the brand’s minute repeater with its tourbillon with Flying Bridges, conceived, developed and assembled within the Manufacture. For the first time, a Girard-Perregaux minute repeater is automatic, aided by a micro-rotor, and the watch is water resistant to 30 metres.
The movement counts 475 components and asks for 440 hours of craftsmanship. There are 1340 hand-polished angles, a figure that tells you more about intent than any slogan. Light is invited in from every side, turning bridges and surfaces into both structure and composition.
The architecture pushes transparency to its limits, echoing Constant Girard‘s long-standing design gesture to reveal the beauty of mechanics. The Flying Bridges are not decoration so much as declaration – a clear statement of how the watch is built and why it deserves to be seen.
Minute repeater and tourbillon are often treated as spectacle. Here they read as engineering first, theatre second. The micro-rotor keeps the wrist in the conversation while leaving the stage uncluttered, a neat touch for daily wearers who prefer sound over show.
Numbers aside, the message is simple. This is a modern Girard-Perregaux chiming watch that prizes clarity – visual, acoustic, conceptual. It reveals its making without bravado, and that restraint is its luxury.
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