Girard Perregaux

Post-SIHH Novelty: Girard-Perregaux Quasar

Feb 16, 2019,23:58 PM

Just 4 weeks after SIHH at the Miami Watches and Wonders, Girard-Perregaux released another novelty from the 2019 collection.

The Girard-Perregaux Quasar. It is sitting within the Bridges collection and is a not unfamiliar watch that was released last year. The Neo-Bridges Tourbillon Skeleton. But instead of a polished Titanium case, it now comes in a full Sapphire case.

While the Titanium version was already a light watch, the sapphire takes it to a new level of being very light and really translucent.

Light can go in and out everywhere and the overall transparency on the wrist has also been pushed up.

The case size has slightly grown to 46mm (45mm for the Titanium).

I only had a few minutes with the watch to take some photos, but it is very impressive in live. For a full review I need to wait for an opportunity to spend a little bit more time with it.

Technical information Quasar

Reference: 99295-43-000-BA6A

Case

Material: sapphire glass Diameter: 46 mm
Height: 15.25 mm
Glass: anti-reflective sapphire Case-back: sapphire crystal Dial: no dial

Hands: skeletonised, white gold, ‘Dauphine’ type, with luminescent material Water resistance: 30 meters (3 ATM)

Movement

Reference: GP09400-1035
Winding: Automatic
Functions: Tourbillon, hours, minutes, small seconds on the tourbillon Power reserve: min. 60 hours
Number of components: 260, of which 27 jewels
Frequency: 21,600 Vib/h – (3 Hz)
Diameter: 36.00 mm (16’’’)
Thickness: 9.54 mm

Tourbillon

Tourbillon carriage composed of 80 components weighing only 0.250 grams

Strap

Material: hand-sewn black alligator leather Buckle: titanium triple folding clasp

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Had the pleasure to play with it, too. Spectacular, original, for sure but I still prefer the Neo Tourbillon " Black ".

By: amanico : February 17th, 2019-00:19

The reason? Your wrist shots say it all. Seeing through the case, you see a part of the sleeve, and a part of a hairy wrist... Even if both the sleeve and the wrist are among the best I know, this is not something I want to see when I look at such a watch...

Hairy? My wrist? :)))

By: crown comfort : February 17th, 2019-00:39

No, but I'm with you on this. The watch is quite large and high and will not fit under a normal long sleeve shirt cuff, hence it looked like it looked on the photos. The black Neo-Tourbillon is my first choice as well. CC

He he... Yes, black Neo Tourbillon!!! I don't desperate to get one, one day. In my reduction process, 10 watches sold for a monster bought... But I am hesitating a lot between the..

By: amanico : February 17th, 2019-00:48

Black Neo Tourbillon and the Constant Escapement...

Cool name! As Astronomy aficionado I like pairing on name with how watch looks

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : February 17th, 2019-00:34

This type of case is must today on the market and G-P again made very very nice job. Thanks for sharing dear CC. Chy D

Yes, it seems the market is calling for such cases and agreed, the overall execution is excellent

By: crown comfort : February 17th, 2019-00:40

not my first choice though.

Hi, Damjan, I was curious to know what Quasar means... [nt]

By: amanico : February 17th, 2019-00:46

Quasar aka Quasi Stellar Object is

By: Ares501 - Mr Green : February 17th, 2019-01:40

most luminous and powerful and energetic objects in Universe. 1 Quasar can emit 1000x more energy than our entire galaxy Milky Way with some 200 billion stars...now please take a moment and grappa to sink it in ... current understanding is that quasars ar...

Thank you, Damjan. They told us, at GP, that it was the most luminous " thing ". But I didn't have precisions about that. Thank you! [nt]

By: amanico : February 17th, 2019-01:43

This watch is so fantastically cool and awesome. I love it. I also don’t understand GP.... why not introduce this at SIHH when people are paying attention?? [nt]

By: Cru Jones : February 17th, 2019-02:23

I did not expect it to be launched that quickly after SIHH

By: crown comfort : February 17th, 2019-09:57

in general it makes sense to spread the novelties a little bit into the year as all at once may just become too much.

They probably wanted to show something new for Watch and Wonders... [nt]

By: amanico : February 17th, 2019-09:59

Agreed. But to maximize visibility for a brand that struggles to have it, I would have thought SIHH would have been a better call. But, I guess that’s why I’m not a watch CEO. ;-) [nt]

By: Cru Jones : February 17th, 2019-10:08

Post-SIHH Novelty: Girard-Perregaux Quasar

Post-SIHH Novelty: Girard-Perregaux Quasar

Had the pleasure to play with it, too. Spectacular, original, for sure but I still prefer the Neo Tourbillon " Black ".

Hairy? My wrist? :)))

He he... Yes, black Neo Tourbillon!!! I don't desperate to get one, one day. In my reduction process, 10 watches sold for a monster bought... But I am hesitating a lot between the..

Cool name! As Astronomy aficionado I like pairing on name with how watch looks

Yes, it seems the market is calling for such cases and agreed, the overall execution is excellent

Hi, Damjan, I was curious to know what Quasar means... [nt]

Quasar aka Quasi Stellar Object is

Thank you, Damjan. They told us, at GP, that it was the most luminous " thing ". But I didn't have precisions about that. Thank you! [nt]

This watch is so fantastically cool and awesome. I love it. I also don’t understand GP.... why not introduce this at SIHH when people are paying attention?? [nt]

I did not expect it to be launched that quickly after SIHH

They probably wanted to show something new for Watch and Wonders... [nt]

Agreed. But to maximize visibility for a brand that struggles to have it, I would have thought SIHH would have been a better call. But, I guess that’s why I’m not a watch CEO. ;-) [nt]

Last year the Titanium version was my absolute favourite from the SIHH!

It surely is impressive

Do you have any side shots?