Girard-Perregaux
Introducing the Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light
Girard-Perregaux
Introducing the Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light
Before we get onto the light — how about we talk movements. If Girard-Perreguax’s golden bridges, a design born in the nineteenth century and one that looks to watchmaking’s rich past, the Neo-bridges, first introduced on 2014’s Neo-Tourbillon, is all about the future. Neo-bridges take their inspiration less from the micro-world of watch engineering and more from the sweeping, brutalist monuments of architects like Oscar Niemeyer. Typically seen in matte-black titanium, these bridges allow for a clean take on the movement, as well as a pleasing symmetry of purpose, with the bridges bearing the barrel (here in dazzling ruthenium), center wheel and 60-second tourbillon in crisp vertical axis.
While the airy openness of the movement is what wins me over — details like that ruthenium barrel and open white gold handset make the interior of this watch an exercise in reflection and refraction as much as telling the time, which by the way, looks like something you’ll need to work on for a second — contrast is not the aim of the game here.
Which is what the Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light is — a statement of the first order. Girard-Perregaux’s rich past and bright future, all wrapped up in one glittering bauble of a watch.
Movement
Reference GP09400-1128, automatic, 3 Hz, 60 hours power reserve. Skeletonised white gold hands, 60-second tourbillon cage, comprised of 79 parts weighing a total of 0.250 grams. Three bridges made from sapphire. Rated to 30m
Case
Sapphire 46mm diameter by 15.25mm height, box style sapphire caseback and crystal.
Strap
Hand-stitched grey fabric with a metallic effect.
The Girard-Perregaux Quasar Light is limited to 18 pieces.
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