This Legendary Brand Just Combined Its Two Icons into One Watch to Rule Them All

This could go down as a definitive watch for this 234-year-old brand.

Side view of a silver stainless steel wristwatch with visible mechanical gears and "GP" engraved on the crown.

Add Gear Patrol as a Preferred Source on Google

Published 4 hours ago

·

If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more

This year marks 50 years since Girard-Perregaux launched the Laureato, the brand’s take on the integrated luxury sports watch. Released in 1975, just three years after the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak and ahead of other luminaries like the Patek Philippe Nautilus and Vacheron Constantin 222, the Laureato today arguably ranks as GP’s most iconic model.

The only other collection in Girard-Perregaux’s catalog that could legitimately challenge the Luareato’s claim to the icon throne is the Three Bridges, a uniquely symmetrical movement architecture that the 234-year-old brand debuted way back in 1867.

Now, just unveiled at Dubai Watch Week 2025, Girard-Perregaux has combined its two icons to create what could be the brand’s definitive modern watch.

Silver stainless steel skeleton watch with visible gears on a black circular stand. — Girard-Perregaux has smashed together its two icons in what may be the ultimate expression of the brand.

Three bridges walk into an integrated sports watch

This isn’t the first time GP has combined the Laureato with a Three Bridges movement, but it’s the first in quite a while and is easily the best-looking.

The new Laureato Three Gold Bridges is in stainless steel and measures 41mm across the case, which is a new size for the Laureato, and it follows the same updated case and bracelet architecture that we saw debut on the 39mm Laureato Fifty just last month.

This means we get a case with sharper angles, more impressive finishing — particularly on the bezel, which is made of white gold — and better integration into the bracelet. The bracelet is flatter, sharper, more tapered and has shorter links, just like on the Fifty, and it’s secured via a triple-folding butterfly clasp that’s activated via octagonal pushers — a nice touch.

Silver metal wristwatch with a skeleton dial showing internal gears, worn on a wrist with a dark jacket and blue cuff. — The watch gets the same updated case and bracelet design that debuted on the Laureato Fifty last month, but in a new, larger size.

I love this new, more angular design of the Laureato, and I’m glad to see that its appearance on the Fifty wasn’t a one-off. It makes the watch much more contemporary-looking and a more formidable challenger to its competitors in the crowded integrated luxury sports watch field.

As much as I love the case and bracelet, though, the centerpiece here is the inclusion of a Three Bridges movement. The new in-house Calibre GP9620 movement displays the mainspring barrel, gear train, and tourbillon in a straight vertical line from 12:00 to 6:00.

Close-up of a silver Girard-Perregaux skeleton watch with visible gears and purple jewel bearings. — The barrel, gear train and tourbillon are mounted on white gold bridges and aligned on a single vertical axis.

Each of those components is suspended from a white gold bridge that’s been hand-finished within an inch of its life in the shape of GP’s arrow logo. Aligning the movement’s three most important elements on a single axis is a trademark of the Three Bridges architecture, and here it creates a symphony in symmetry that’s visible on both sides of the watch thanks to an open-worked dial and a sapphire display caseback.

The movement is pretty remarkable, even by Three Bridges standards. It features a total of 303 components and an absurd 418 hand-polished bevels, with 362 of those being difficult-to-achieve inward angles. The movement is assembled by a single master watchmaker, who signs it after completion.

Despite the movement’s sparse appearance, it’s also an automatic, thanks to a platinum micro-rotor that’s hidden behind the mainspring barrel at 12. When fully wound, the power reserve is 55 hours.

Back of a stainless steel Laureato watch showing intricate skeleton movement with visible gears and ruby jewels. — Though it doesn’t look it, the watch is an automatic, with a platinum micro-rotor hidden behind the mainspring barrel.

Pricing and availability

This might be my favorite Luareato ever. The updated case and bracelet design looks incredibly sharp, I love that it’s in steel with only accents in white gold, and the addition of a Three Bridges tourbillon movement — particularly one as stunning and special as this — simply takes the watch to an entirely different level. If there’s a single watch that should represent what modern-day Girard-Perregaux is all about, this is it.

But all of this excellence certainly doesn’t come cheap. The Laureato Three Gold Bridges is limited to just 50 examples, one for each year the Laureato has been around, and it’s priced at an eye-popping $175,350. Safe to say I probably don’t know anyone who’ll be picking one up, but that doesn’t make it any less stunning or impressive.

Silver stainless steel skeleton watch with visible gears and a linked bracelet band.

Girard-Perregaux Laureato Three Gold Bridges

Specs

Case Size	41mm
Movement	Girard-Perregaux Cal. GP9620 automatic tourbillon
Water Resistance	30m

$175,350 at Girard-Perregaux

About the Author:

Johnny Brayson is an editor at Gear Patrol mostly covering watches. He enjoys watches that are packed with blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em details and believes nearly every watch could stand to be a tad smaller.

Want to stay up to date on the latest product news and releases? Add Gear Patrol as a preferred source to ensure our independent journalism makes it to the top of your Google search results.