The movement is pretty remarkable, even by Three Bridges standards. It features a total of 303 components and an absurd 418 hand-polished bevels, with 362 of those being difficult-to-achieve inward angles. The movement is assembled by a single master watchmaker, who signs it after completion.
Despite the movement’s sparse appearance, it’s also an automatic, thanks to a platinum micro-rotor that’s hidden behind the mainspring barrel at 12. When fully wound, the power reserve is 55 hours.
Pricing and availability
This might be my favorite Luareato ever. The updated case and bracelet design looks incredibly sharp, I love that it’s in steel with only accents in white gold, and the addition of a Three Bridges tourbillon movement — particularly one as stunning and special as this — simply takes the watch to an entirely different level. If there’s a single watch that should represent what modern-day Girard-Perregaux is all about, this is it.
But all of this excellence certainly doesn’t come cheap. The Laureato Three Gold Bridges is limited to just 50 examples, one for each year the Laureato has been around, and it’s priced at an eye-popping $175,350. Safe to say I probably don’t know anyone who’ll be picking one up, but that doesn’t make it any less stunning or impressive.