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Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. In 1791, watchmaker and goldsmith Jean-François Bautte signed his first watches. He created a manufacturing company in Geneva grouping, for the first time ever, all the watch making facets of that time, which meant starting from the engineering of the watch all the way to the final handassembly and hand polishing of each watch. In 1852, the watchmaker Constant Girard founded the Girard & Cie Firm in La Chaux-de-Fonds. He, then, married Marie Perregaux and the Girard-Perregaux Manufacture was born in 1856. In 1906, Constant Girard-Gallet, who took over control of the Manufacturer from his father, took over the Bautte House and merged it with Girard-Perregaux & Cie. Since then, the brand has pursued its activities by reinforcing from the 1980 sits position in the domain of prestigious mechanical watches, Haute Horlogerie
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History
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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
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born
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1852
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foundation by Constant Girard
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1880
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Constant Girard produced the first ever major commercial production of a wristwatch,made for German naval officers and ordered by German Kaiser Wilhelm I for his Germannaval officers
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1965
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Girard-Perregaux designed the first mechanic movement at high frequency
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1967
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Girard-Perregaux receives the Centenary Award from the Astronomical Observatory deNeuchatel in recognition of the accomplishments of the Manufacture generally, andspecifically for the Observatory Chronometer wristwatch that used the Gyromatic HF
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1970
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Girard-Perregaux presents its first wristwatch to the world to be equipped with a quartz movement and the following year a second one which vibrates at 32,768 hertz
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