Girard-Perregaux made the movement the entire reason to look

I could stare at this thing for a long time. The Laureato Fifty Three Gold Bridges has the sort of mechanical layout that makes me forget I was supposed to be checking the time. The three gold bridges run across the face, the tourbillon sits at the bottom, and the whole arrangement looks deliberate enough that I don't miss having a normal dial over it.

The price is $182,000 USD on Girard-Perregaux's official listing, checked October 29, 2026, so buying one is an entirely imaginary activity for me. Looking at it is still very enjoyable. I like complicated watches when I can actually see what all that money is doing, and there is plenty to look at here.

The case leaves the movement some room

This reference is 41 mm across and 10.85 mm thick. The case is steel with a white-gold bezel, while the three visible bridges are rose gold. That combination keeps the exterior relatively restrained in the official photographs, and then the movement supplies most of the color and the drama.

I like the way the octagonal bezel contains everything. There are a lot of parts visible, but the horizontal bridges give my eye somewhere to settle instead of making the whole face look like a random collection of holes. The bridge across the middle also puts a strong line behind the hands, although I would want to see it in changing light before making any claim about legibility.

Inside is the self-winding GP09620, with 303 components, 33 jewels and a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour. A platinum micro-rotor sits behind the barrel, so the automatic winding system doesn't need a large rotor sweeping across the view. The front and rear sapphire crystals make sense on a watch whose movement is so much of the attraction.

I would keep looking at the bridges

The rear photograph is almost as interesting to me as the front. I haven't handled this watch, so I can't tell you how its finishing compares under a loupe or whether the bracelet feels as good as its price suggests. I can say that the visual balance is very good from the supplied images, including the way the bracelet meets the case.

Water resistance is 50 meters. I would be spending considerably more time thinking about where to set down a watch at this price than testing that specification. The practical appeal for me is the 41 mm size and relatively contained thickness; a complicated watch doesn't automatically need to take over my entire wrist.

I'm giving it 110 out of 120 bezel clicks. I love the architecture of the movement and the symmetry those bridges create, and the Laureato case gives it a shape I could imagine wearing even if I cannot imagine paying for it. The official page confirms this reference and price, but it doesn't establish a delivery date or an allocation I could actually buy.

November 13 update: green sapphires for The Hour Glass

Current IAMWATCH coverage reports a The Hour Glass execution of this same Laureato platform with 32 baguette-cut green sapphires in its octagonal white-gold bezel. The steel case and the Three Gold Bridges architecture remain the basis of the watch. The report appeared on November 12, 2026.

The green setting is a new variant, so it belongs here rather than on a second page with another rating. My existing 110-click score stays unchanged. The photographs on this page show the original configuration; they do not depict the new green-sapphire bezel.

The new execution's exact reference, quantity, US-dollar price and allocation are unverified. The $182,000 quote and its October 29 check date above apply to the original reference, not to a newly priced gem-set edition. The available event photographs carry an explicit republication restriction, so I haven't substituted them or treated another model's images as this edition.