The Laureato is Girard-Perregaux’s answer to the integrated luxury sports watch. Born in 1975 as a chronometer-certified quartz sports watch, Girard-Perregaux revived the Laureato in 2016 as a limited edition to celebrate the brand’s 225th anniversary, and later as a collection in 2017 . Produced three years after Gérald Genta’s landmark Royal Oak but a year before the Nautilus, the original Laureato consolidated the design language of the fledgling genre with a slim, tonneau-shaped case and a raised, gold octagonal bezel. Building on that heritage, the new Laureato Chronograph 42mm pairs the collection’s familiar geometry with a more assertive, modern two-tone steel and rose gold execution with a Toblerone chocolate dial in a limited run of 50 pieces.

The original 1975 Laureato captured the groove of the day with a sleek integrated steel case and bracelet, a polished yellow gold bezel and a curious tapering gold line running down the central link of the bracelet that looked painted – it was, in fact, a…