Never mind that Genta was clearly in a design rut and just iterated three times on a single idea (impressively convincing three different brands to launch very similar watches from the same designer, two of them in the same year). The Royal Oak and the Nautilus loom large over the world of watches, with the resurgent Ingenieur not much smaller in stature. The giants of the 1970s that blended geometric design with a fluid silhouette now stand as the paragons not just of the integrated sports watch craze in which we find ourselves, but of watches writ large. The Laureato, I think, gets a bit lost in the iconography of luxury steel sports watches. The Girard-Perregaux Laureato 38mm is no different but brings a new color and a new size to the collection. The modern Laureato is a more interesting design, without being quirky (like by having ears), with an elegant but edgy bezel to complement its fluid case design. Never mind the unobtainable status of the alternatives, the Laureato has always been my favorite watch of its type. From all the pictures I’d seen, with the warm texture of the dial, on top of the fact that I’ve always liked the Laureato design, it just clicked. As soon as I saw the release of the Girard-Perregaux Laureato 38mm with its textured copper dial, I knew I wanted to try it out.
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