Girard-Perregaux Laureato Perpetual Calendar

This classic luxury sports watch is taken to seriously complicated heights with the incorporation of a perpetual calendar. Instead of going the conventional route with the placement and look of the different calendar indications, Girard-Perregaux decided on what it calls “harmoniously off-set” design.

Set against a blue dial with Clou de Paris hobnail pattern, the day counter is at ‘9’ while the pointer date display sub-dial is positioned between ‘2’ and ‘3’. The month is shown via a long, curved aperture at '6', with the correct month indicated by a red pointer fixed at ‘5’. Above it is the indication for leap year.

Commanding the various calendar operation is an automatic movement developed and assembled entirely in-house, its Côtes de Genève motif visible via the sapphire caseback.

The Laureato case with octagonal bezel measures 42mm in diameter and under 12mm in height, making it an elegant timepiece for the glamorous jet-setter.

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