The Cat's Eye was born in the year 2004. Since then, this attractive ladies’ watch continues to delight us with its ability to express, in an ultra-feminine manner, the increasingly technical complexities that are held within its oval form. The latest in this line of Girard-Perregaux felines is the Cat's Eye Bi-retrograde.
A poetic marriage between the manufacture’s mechanical movement and a double retrograde indicator (seconds and days of the week), set on a nocturnal mother-of-pearl dial with a delightful grey moon at 12 o’clock, the Cat's Eye Bi-retrograde has just crowned a line that is both very watchmaking in nature – think of the Cat's Eye Tourbillon – and very jewellery in appearance.
With very few other examples, this timepiece softens the prevailing classic severity by its baroque appeal and its determination to seduce. In its own way, it is also a pioneer in the marriage between Haute Horlogerie and Haute Couture timekeeping.


Source: Europa Star April-May 2006 Magazine Issue