Continuing with Part II we will look at what I consider to be the signature of Girard-Perregaux: The Three-Golden-Bridge Tourbillon. This signature design goes back to the pocket watch days and that’s where the little fun fact roots in as well.
In a pocket watch you typically have a lid covering the dial and a lid covering the backside with the beautiful movement. With the Three-Golden-Bridge moving into a wristwatch, the desire is understandable to have the movement “dial-side” to be admired all the time while wearing the watch. As a consequence the movement was turned 180 degrees and that’s why today you have on all Three-Golden-Bridge Tourbillons (with the exception of course when the movement is only on the backside) that the hands are “upside-down”. By upside down I mean that unlike typically where the Minute hand sits above the hour hand, here it is the other way around with the hour hand on top.
Continuing with Part II we will look at what I consider to be the signature of Girard-Perregaux: The Three-Golden-Bridge Tourbillon. This signature design goes back to the pocket watch days and that’s where the little fun fact roots in as well.
In a pocket watch you typically have a lid covering the dial and a lid covering the backside with the beautiful movement. With the Three-Golden-Bridge moving into a wristwatch, the desire is understandable to have the movement “dial-side” to be admired all the time while wearing the watch. As a consequence the movement was turned 180 degrees and that’s why today you have on all Three-Golden-Bridge Tourbillons (with the exception of course when the movement is only on the backside) that the hands are “upside-down”. By upside down I mean that unlike typically where the Minute hand sits above the hour hand, here it is the other way around with the hour hand on top.
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