Cosmic Blues: Girard-Perregaux Quasar Azure Limited Edition
Girard-Perregaux’s invention of a tourbillon with three bridges, first unveiled in a timepiece on 1867, has influenced the venerable maison’s tourbillon-equipped wristwatches ever since, most notably in its eye-popping Quasar editions of recent years. The newest one, limited to only eight pieces, fits the Quasar’s sophisticated, skeletonized tourbillon movement into a case made entirely of blue sapphire.
Girard-Perregaux Quasar Azure
The first Quasar timepiece, released early in 2019 and named after a super-luminous astronomical object in keeping with that year’s “Earth to Sky” theme, was the first Girard-Perregaux watch with a case made entirely from sapphire. Its follow-up, in February 2020, was the Quasar Light, which also used sapphire for the iconic three bridges of the tourbillon. The Quasar Azure is distinguished by its translucent 46-mm case, sculpted from a single block of blue-tinted sapphire. The forming, milling, coloring, and polishing of the case is a painstaking process that required more than 200 hours of work to ensure a uniform shade for the finished piece, including its lugs and crown. Box-shaped crystals in the front and back of the case offer a 360º view of the watch?s complex, skeletonized movement, Caliber GP09400-1035.
The skeletonized movement is on display inside the blue sapphire case.
The Quasar Azure’s arrow-shaped “Neo-Bridges” ? which anchor the tourbillon and have their aesth...
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