The integrated-bracelet watch you can actually buy.

The 1970s produced three integrated-bracelet steel sports watches that still define the category, and two of them are on years-long waiting lists at retail. The Laureato is the third, launched in 1975, from a manufacture older than either competitor, and it is the one a dealer will actually sell you. The shape is the same idea, an octagon sitting on a circle, the bracelet running straight out of the case, but the polishing is Girard-Perregaux’s own and the hobnail dial is the pattern the company has used since the first one.

The 42 is the three-hand model: hours, minutes, seconds, a date at three, and the in-house GP01800 with about 54 hours of reserve showing through the back. The blue dial is the signature colour. If you want more, the Laureato Chronograph pages on this site cover the panda and the blue chronographs.

The listing is a title, a model number and one line: Laureato 42mm (Blue), 81010-11-431-11A, date window at three. There are no spec rows, so there is nothing to contradict, and the photograph matches the reference: steel case and bracelet, blue hobnail dial, date at three. The calibre, reserve and water resistance here are Girard-Perregaux’s published figures, not the seller’s.

The seller is MS-TR JAPAN, a marketplace seller shipping from Japan with delivery quoted at two to four weeks, and there is no condition statement, no service history and nothing about box or papers. Ask all three before buying, and use the 30-day return window to have the watch checked when it arrives. Every figure here comes from the listing and from Girard-Perregaux’s published description, not from handling the watch.

This is a regular Amazon listing from a marketplace seller with Amazon’s 30-day return window; it is not a Luxury Stores unit and the seller has not published a condition. The second button opens the live search for blue Laureato 42s in case this one has sold.

Laureatos have resold for under new and close to what pre-owned buyers paid, sometimes more, sometimes less; that is a pattern, not a promise, and nothing here is investment advice.