What is the name of Girard-Perregaux’s watch featuring three gold bridges, first presented in 1867?

Girard-Perregaux’s 1867 watch featuring three gold bridges was called the Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges.

Constant Girard developed a movement in which three parallel gold bridges held the barrels, wheels and tourbillon. Instead of hiding the movement’s structural elements, the design made them a central visual feature.

Girard-Perregaux presented the watch at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris, where it received a gold medal. The arrangement became one of the manufacture’s signature designs and has been reinterpreted in later wristwatches.

The name can be confusing because “tourbillon” describes the regulating device, while “Three Gold Bridges” describes the movement architecture. It is therefore not merely a decorative bridge design; the bridges support key components of the mechanism.