Friends,

Last week I gave you my view of the Girard-Perregaux Laureato ref 81000 with Silver dial…

Here is a link to the report: www.watchprosite.com

Now the time has come for me to give you my view on the Blue dial version!

The five words I choose in my previous report for the new Laureato with silver dial was: STUNNING, COOL, THIN, LIGHT and SOLID, with a bonus word of COMFORTABLE.

Here, I would like to keep all the words but change the meaning of COOL.

In fact, more like SUPER COOL!

As cold as the monochrome look of the Silver dial may seem, as SUPER COOL is the look of the Blue!

The waffle pattern on the Blue gives the dial better contrast for the hands and indexes.

But not only that…

Here is an important point for those of you who like to have the date feature on your watch: it gives a better contrast for the date window which is quite small, but easy to read!

From the beginning I was thinking it would have been better with a matching blue date wheel…

But after comparing with other watches I realize that if blue, I would have difficulties reading the date.

Am I getting old? Yes and so are my eyes…

Would I prefer the watch without a date window?

Not sure, after looking from every angle at this dial, I am not bothered by the date.

I lean more towards that if no date and if no “Automatic” text in the lower part of the dial it would look kind of empty.

Another thing that makes this watch SUPER COOL is the dial colour and the way it all the time changes!

Yes, it is blue – and Blue, the colour of Love!

But it’s not blue-blue like some of its predecessors, like the Laureato Quartz 4266…

Or the Laureato Olimpico 8017…

More like blue, greyish-blue…

Depending on angle and light the dial goes from dark blue to greyish-blue.

Again to point out the THIN profile of this watch, here are some better profile shots.

See how THIN and elegant the profile is.

The way the case is curved and tapered towards the THIN bracelet.

Which helps making the Laureato 81000 so LIGHT.

And while talking about the bracelet…

The links have SOLID feel and you don’t worry that they will start to bend over backwards anytime soon.

They are not really flat, lightly curved but not as much as on the Laureato 8010 or 8017.

The double folding clasp is easy to use and gives the same SOLID feeling as the rest of the bracelet.

The double folding clasp is THIN so you don’t get a bulky feeling or get stuck everywhere with it.

By pushing the two sides you open and close the clasp.

Another SOLID detail is the screw-down crown.

Good proportions, easy to operate.

The COMFORT of this watch is not only for your wrist, yes the bracelet is very COMFORTABLE.

Smooth, supple but the COMFORT is also for your eyes!

Easy to read even in low light…

With big luminous markers on both hands and indexes.

So, to sum up my view of the new Girard-Perregaux Laureato 81000 Silver and Blue:

I find the Silver dial very attractive!

If I could I would choose to make the pair today…

But I don’t have that possibility here…

I need to choose only one…

My personal preference goes to… The BLUE!

My bonus word in this report will be LOVE!

I am head over heels for this one…

As you all already know these two versions are made in a Limited Edition of 225 watches of each dial colour to celebrate the 225 Years Anniversary of the Manufacture.

So what could be more logic than choosing the Anniversary number?!

Blue, the colour of LOVE!

As I mentioned Blue…

… Greyish-Blue!

I will end this report with a classic Blue-on-Blue WristShot!

So, now you know my view of the two new Laureato 81000.

Would love to hear yours!

Best

Blomman