Girard-Perregaux’s classic from 1975 is still a hit fifty years later. Earlier this October, Girard-Perregaux launched an anniversary edition of what is almost certainly its best known model: the Laureato, which debuted in 1975, at an interesting time and under interesting circumstances. The Laureato was one of the first generation of integrated bracelet luxury watches,

The Gérald Genta Minute Repeater is a purely personal pleasure. The extent to which it’s become possible to see watches of any kind and at any price point is astonishing relative to the experience of watches prior to the Internet – for most of the history of watchmaking, evaluating a watch meant seeing it in