this year, Girard-Perregaux, the Chaux-de-Fonds high-end watchmaker known for its mechanical planetariums, tri-axial tourbillons and minute repeaters, launched a watch, the Casquette 2.0. So far, so normal; you can barely walk around Switzerland without having to dodge new watches getting thrown at you from various ateliers. But this new GP was – whisper it – quartz. Not only was it quartz, it was digital. And it was a digital watch with an LED display and the spit of a watch first made in
