Girard, Constant (1825 - 1903)

inventor , designer, founder

Constant Girard was a Swiss watchmaker from the 19th century, who marked his time by his developments in the escapements ystems, in particular that of the tourbillon. His most famous watch, the Tourbillon with three gold bridges, is still fabricated today in modern versions by the Swiss watch manufacturer, Girard-Perregaux, founded by Costant Girard.
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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* 1825	LaChaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland	Né
1852		he founds Girard & Cie
1884		He patented his Tourbillon with three gold bridges
1899		Tourbillon was awarded a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of Paris
† 1903	LaChaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland	Décédé

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