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| Is this the best watch in the world ?? |
| It was Constant Girard who designed the the now famous Tourbillon with three gold bridges. The complex technology of the tourbillon is still today a difficult mechanism to craft, and a marvel because it corrects the inacuracies effected by gravity. When Girard presented his Three Gold Bridges watch to the Paris Universal Exhibitions of 1867 and 1889, the judges deemed the timepiece to perfect to compete. The Three Gold Bridges first moved to the wrist in 1991, as a commemorative timepiece for the companies 200th birthday. |
| The movement is Mechanical, manual winding,Girard-Perregaux with toubillon device mounted on three 18kt pink gold bridges. Westminster Carillon type sonnerie with 4 hammers and gongs tuned in to notes E-C-D-G (MI-DO-RE-SOL) the famous melody of Big Ben in London. The 18kt pink gold three piece case. antireflective curved saphire crystal displaying the movement from both sides and repeater slide on case side. The whole is Chased, entirely finished and decorated by hand by the firms watchmakers and is specially conceived to amplify the sound, giving it a crystalline resonance. Mind, at over $250,000 USD you would expect it to right? |
| Excerpts and pictures taken from 'International watches' magazine without permission |