It has earned hundreds of patents and is regularly on the cutting edge when it comes to complicated watches including tourbillons, repeaters and sonneries and high-jeweled masterpieces. Today, the brand – owned now by the Kering Group – has forged forward in the world of innovation and invention. The company purchased a building in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where it is still located.
It wasn’t until 1906 that the two companies, Girard Perregaux and Jean-Francoise Bautte & Cie (Constant Girard-Gallet actually bought the Bautte company) were merged and the modern Girard-Perregaux was formed. Swiss watchmaker Constant Girard started his own company, Girard & Cie, in 1852.įour years later, in 1856, Girard married Marie Perregaux and the first vestiges of the current name took hold, as the Constant Girard company was renamed Girard Perregaux. While the above may not seem relevant just yet, other pieces were still setting into place.
