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- Girard-Perregaux – Classic Design and Technical Perfection
Girard-Perregaux is known as one of the best watch brands. Its watches are famous in all over the world for their elegant design and technical perfection.
History of the brand traces back to 1791 when watchmaker and goldsmith Jean-Francois Bautte launched a manufacturing company in Geneva and regrouped all the watch making trades at that time. Later, in 1853 the watchmaker Constant Girard married Marie Perregaux and founded the Girard & Cie Firm in La Chaux-de Fonds.
- Girard-Perregaux’s Savoir-Faire
Like that on its racing car, one thing you cannot miss on a Ferrari Watch is its shield-shaped emblem of the black prancing stallion in front of a yellow background. Call it logo magic. Think of the many boys around the world who have grown up with the aspiration to own a Ferrari of his dream? Ferrari’s great successes in Formula One led it into an iconic representation of excellence, a pride of Italy.
- The Restoration Pioneer of German Watch-Making
Girard-Perregaux replica watches have an amazing feature of universality, because there are classical watches, sport watches, ladies' watches which are extremely popular worldwide.
Girard-Perregaux is one of the few authentic Swiss watch-making companies, which produces its own in-house movements and also supplies these movements to other watch-making companies. These movements provide the best watch-making companies with the most reliable time-keeping.
An important fact in the history of the brand is that Girard-Perregaux was among the first watch brands to assemble car and racing-related watches. This way the watchmakers have assembled watches for Ferrari and BMW and these watches resemble so much the dashboards of the cars they are dedicated to.
Girard-Perregaux has a special relationship to the Ferrari F1 Team, because Luigi Macaluso, the manager of the company, is a former race driver of the Scuderia team. Thus assembling watches for Ferrari was a matter of time and a personal matter of honor or Mr. Macaluso.