Girard-Perregaux takes its name from watchmaker Constant Girard and his wife Marie Perregaux, who joined their names in the 1850s in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where the manufacture is still based; its roots go back to 1791 in Geneva. The house is best known for the Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges, a design patented in the nineteenth century and still produced today.
The Laureato, launched in 1975, is its integrated-bracelet sports watch with an octagonal bezel, offered as time-only, chronograph and skeleton flying tourbillon models. The 1966 collection covers classic round dress watches.