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Lot Essay
Accompanied by Girard-Perregaux cardboard slipcase, presentation box, guarantee card and instructions.
The "Three Gold Bridge" tourbillon has become Girard-Perregaux's most prestigious innovation and their most famed of productions. The patent for it was filed in the United States on March 24th of 1884 (Patent No. 14919).
"Be it known that I, Girard-Perregaux of Chaux-de-Fonds, Republic of Switzerland have invented and produced a new and original Design of a Watch-Movement, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description....In a watch movement the design for a bridge, consisting a bridge having a central annular portion, spread-out ends and bar-like portions between the said annular portions and ends, as shown...."
The firm resurrected the triple bridge design in their more recent production in 1982 for pocket watches and in 2000 for wristwatches.
The "Three Gold Bridge" tourbillon has become Girard-Perregaux's most prestigious innovation and their most famed of productions. The patent for it was filed in the United States on March 24th of 1884 (Patent No. 14919).
"Be it known that I, Girard-Perregaux of Chaux-de-Fonds, Republic of Switzerland have invented and produced a new and original Design of a Watch-Movement, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description....In a watch movement the design for a bridge, consisting a bridge having a central annular portion, spread-out ends and bar-like portions between the said annular portions and ends, as shown...."
The firm resurrected the triple bridge design in their more recent production in 1982 for pocket watches and in 2000 for wristwatches.