It is the need for accuracy that had pushed Lip to enter the race to discover the first electric watch. Albert Caquot, who had received « the grand cross of  the

Legion ofHonour » and,who was considered as the greatest French engineer of his the time said, « We have to get back to the invention of the lever escapement in the eighteenth century to recall of a discovery of an equivalant importance in watchmaking. »  This revolution was not made without effort since it took almost 8 years to the Lip engineers to be able to present the first electrical watch to the world and give it as a gift to the General de Gaulle who finally gave his name to a cutting edge watch. This technological « lip » has tranformed forever the watch industry, now divided between two worlds the electrical one and the mechanical one.

THE GDG AUTOMATIC : A VERY AWAITED WATCH

It’s by listening ot its audience that Lip decided to create this new automatic version that lifts even higher the overall quality of General de Gaulle watch model. The pleasure of wearing a watch powered byyour own movements is really something unique. The watch is already by nature an object very close to its owner who often maintains an almost emotional relationship with  his timepiece. Knowing that the heart of your watch beats thanks to the rythme of your life increases dramatically this intimacy. There is also of the second hand smoothness that is quite sublime to observe …

The Lip fans who have been waiting so impatiently for this new feature will be satisfied. It must be said that they have some serious reasons to be ! The case is in stainless steel,  the automatic movement has a reserve of charge of 42 hours, it has a butterfly clasp, and two versions of straps, the genuine leather one and the milanese one and of course gives time with great precision ! This is the kind of watch that can be worn at all times but always with a great elegance and an absolutely amazing story to tell to your friends…The story of a brand that has put France on the world map of the watchmakers with its electrical watch.