Girard-Perregaux Bridges Cosmos model, which is one of the most important pieces of the “Earth to Sky” theme, tells the time with poetic paradoxes featuring a tourbillon, a sky map, and a world clock complication.
Girard-Perregaux, 13.9 billion years after the Big Bang, has set its sights on the eternity of light, shadow, and mystery. Within this approach, the brand initiates a dialogue between matter and space through the Earth and sky.
The 47mm titanium case, which the Swiss watch brand uses sandblasting technique, carries the world inside. High-profile sapphire crystal creates an astronomical telescope effect. The model is 12.15mm thin. The watch’s case is water-resistant up to 30 meters, which is quite normal for a timepiece like this.
At 9 o’clock position on the eye of Cosmos, the sky map comes to Cosmos through a sidereal angle. The laser engraved on a blue titanium sphere rotates every 23 hours, 58 minutes and 4 seconds, which is the exact duration of a sidereal day. This sphere focuses on the most well-known, most visible star formations, the horoscope.
The ancient Greeks believed that aesthetic rules govern the universe they eagerly observed. The symmetrical arrangement of the Cosmos double sphere can be said to be the result of a quest for order and beauty. Along the horizontal and vertical axes, complications are positioned at four cardinal points.
The hour and minute indicators are located at 12 o’clock position on the Bridge Cosmos’s thoughtfully designed dial. At 6 o’clock, the Tourbillon rotates under the big black titanium bridge. The world at 3 o’clock works as a day/night indicator and the sky map is at 9 o’clock. Hydro-ceramic particles, which do not show themselves in daylight and shine like miniature dots at night, show the sky movements to the user in an accelerated manner.
The 24-hour scale near the equator part of the world at 3 o’clock allows the user to follow the GMT function. In this world, which is the most sophisticated way to show the second time frame made of titanium and laser-machined, you can easily see the hollow oceans and the high continents.
Girard-Perregaux Bridges Cosmos is powered by the hand-wound GP09320-1098 movement, providing 60 hours of power reserve to the tourbillon, second time zone, day/night and constellation displays, as well as hours and minutes functions when fully wound.
The watch is complemented by a handcrafted blue crocodile strap and a titanium folding buckle.
