Piaget invites us to rediscover the captivating beauty of turquoise, an ornamental stone which has inspired cultures and civilisations for millennia, with a bold new collection of jewellery watches that fuse the Maison’s legendary craftsmanship, flair for colour and play of shapes.
From the softly sculpted lines of its newest Sixtie jewellery watch, to the cascading silhouettes of its Swinging Sautoirs, Piaget continues to defy convention and celebrate convention-breaking, life-affirming creativity. Piaget, ever drawn to colour’s expressive possibilities, embraced turquoise as early as 1963 when it pioneered the use of vibrant ornamental stone dials paired with its groundbreaking ultra-thin watch movements.
Today, Piaget renews its love affair with turquoise, infusing its latest creations with its rich legacy of timeless, effortless glamour with the Sixtie watch in turquoise. The watch’s gently tapering trapezoidal dial—now adorned with the radiant blue-green glow of turquoise which shines in all its glory without indexes—pays homage to Piaget’s groundbreaking 21st Century Collection of 1969.
The Sixtie pays tribute to that golden age, its gleaming, gadrooned bezel echoing that of Piaget’s equally iconic, retro TV screen-shaped Andy Warhol watch of the 1970s, a design recently renamed for its number one fan, the undisputed King of Pop Art.
Piaget’s legacy of avant-garde watchmaking and mastery of colour continues in the new Sixtie Swinging Sautoir (above). Inspired by sketches once drawn directly by Piaget’s designers onto the pages of fashion magazines, this turquoise and trapezoid-dialled sautoir captures the era’s casual glamour with a cascading framework of diamond-set, hand twisted gold that echoes the contours of the dial like gentle ripples on the water’s surface.
Piaget’s exuberant creativity and sensuality extends to the new Essentia watch (above), in which a perfectly irregular case featuring a unique turquoise dial, rich in colour and character and inspired by natural, organic forms, is encircled by a highly polished, highly tactile frame of gold and diamonds. Its undulating silhouette flows seamlessly into a bracelet of matching gold chain links that taper around the wrist and hug it like a precious talisman, combining the Maison’s signature savoir-faire in chainmaking with the abundance of its natural inspiration.
Across the collection, Piaget’s artistry shines through in every detail with the chromatic intensity of the turquoise dials, the play of light across gadrooned bezels and high-polish bracelet links, and the generous, tactile textures of richly worked gold.
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