Girard-Perregaux
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Girard-Perregaux SA is a luxury Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. In 2022, then-owner French luxury group Kering sold its stake in Sowind Group SA, the parent company of Gi
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Tourbillon with three gold bridges
An award-winning Girard-Perregaux pocket watch
Quartz crisis
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The quartz crisis or quartz revolution was the upheaval in the watchmaking industry caused by the advent of quartz watches in the 1970s and 1980s, that largely replaced mechanical watches around the w
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…Girard-Gallet, who took over control of the Manufacture from his father, acquired the Bautte House and merged it with Girard-Perregaux & Cie. Since the quartz crisis, the brand has pursued its activities by reinforcing from the 1980s its position in the domain of high-quality mechanical watches. Since late 1980s…
Quartz movement of the Seiko Astron, 1969
The first Swiss quartz clock, which was made after World War II (left), on display at the International Museum of Horology in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland
Seiko Grand Quartz, produced in 1978
Swatch Once Again watch