How Girard-Perregaux Wristwatches Company Was Founded
The timepieces by Girard Perregaux are considered to be a unique combination of timepiece-making standards with the newest developments and beautiful classical style. The ways of the brand are the same to demonstrate its accuracy and respectability no matter how much time has passed.
Jean Francois Bautte, a Swiss watchmaker was the 1st to produce these timepieces, so the company was founded by him. But it changed in 1856 as the company was taken over by the family of another watchmaker Girard Perregaux who went on with creating watches.
The starting product of the company that appeared in the watch market were watches that had very plane case. That was a successful start that gave way to lots of brand’s traditions. Those days it was common to buy pocket watches so it was quite a revolutionary idea of the watchmaker to manufacture wrist timepieces in series in 1880.
So Girard Perregaux went on with the 1st watch mechanism with high frequency that received the name replica watch Gyromatic. In some period of time there appeared the first quartz mechanism with frequency of about 32,768 Hertz, which then became the standard kept to all over the world. For those years it seemed quite extraordinary to put electronics into classical watches, which was made by the watchmaker in his “Equation Espace Perpetuelle” watch. As in the 2nd half of the twentieth century the economical crisis started, techniques of Perregaux let him keep his company and enjoy stability. (more…)