COSMOS
Girard-Perregaux closes the year by unveiling three creations that epitomize its mastery of artistry, architecture, and innovation.
Girard-Perregaux is pleased to unveil the Cosmos, limited to a single unique piece. Featuring a titanium case, it is equipped with three complications, including a tourbillon, a complication designed to counter the adverse influence of gravity on the regulating organ. Presented at the base of the dial, the tourbillon features a lyre-shaped cage. This is held in position by Girard-Perregaux’s signature aeral Neo Bridge, a contemporary interpretation of Constant-Girard’s famous ‘arrow-shaped’ bridge of the 19th century, here in titanium.
Complementing the tourbillon, two additional complications enhance the watch: a terrestrial globe and a celestial globe. The terrestrial globe at 3 o’clock serves as a day/night indicator, rotating once every 24 hours and framed by a Saturn-inspired fixed hour ring. Opposite at 9 o’clock, the celestial globe displays the Zodiac constellations and completes a 23-hour, 56-minute, 4-second rotation, the length of a sidereal day.
Complementing the tourbillon, two additional complications enhance the watch: a terrestrial globe and a celestial globe. The terrestrial globe at 3 o’clock serves as a day/night indicator, rotating once every 24 hours and framed by a Saturn-inspired fixed hour ring. Opposite at 9 o’clock, the celestial globe displays the Zodiac constellations and completes a 23-hour, 56-minute, 4-second rotation, the length of a sidereal day.
TOURBILLON WITH THREE FLYING BRIDGES
The Manufacture also releases a fresh take on the Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges, limited to only 8 pieces. Housed in a white gold case and featuring three black tinted bridges centre stage, the watch masterfully plays with space, transparency, symmetry and three-dimensionality and serves as a shining example of Haute Horlogerie.
Eschewing a conventional mainplate, the eponymous bridges not only support the geartrain, barrel and tourbillon, but also provide the essential structural integrity for the remainder of the movement. Appearing to float mid-air, the bridges are braced by neat, open worked gold plinths that project from the interior wall of the case.
NEO CONSTANT ESCAPEMENT
The Neo Constant Escapement is also part of the brand’s year-end launches and is presented in two versions: pink gold, and carbon and silicium.
The first reference is housed in a sumptuous 45 mm case formed of pink gold and exudes preciousness and refinement from every angle. This modern-day creation wholeheartedly embraces the future. Beneath the pink gold Neo bridges at the base of the dial, the balance wheel can be seen rotating back and forth. The silicium blade, executed in a vivid purple hue, is a mere 14 microns wide, while the escapement spring is just 120 microns thick (a human hair is 50 – 90 microns in thickness). These incalculable numbers serve to demonstrate the tolerances the Manufacture works to every day.
The Neo Constant Escapement ultra-limited edition of two pieces features a carbon and silicium composite case that is exceptionally light, highly resistant and visually striking with its black and grey textured surface. Its green silicium blade, unique to this model, adds a distinctive touch. An engraving near the black DLC-treated titanium crown, reading “1 of 2” or “2 of 2”, underscores the rarity of this creation.
