This year, once again blending together artistic beauty and crafts-making perfection, two of the ultimate challenges in watchmaking, Piaget is opening a brand-new chapter. The moon phase complication enters the Altiplano collection, introducing the Altiplano Moonphase.
For well over a century, Piaget’s savoir-faire has been revolving around the Maison’s ability to put technicality at the service of beauty, using the first to provide the second with as much creative space as possible.
Starting in the 1960s, ultra-thin movements allowed a significant gain in creativity and elegance, thanks, in part, to hard stone dials. In 1998, the creation of the Altiplano watch was the ultimate step towards a spectacular union of craft and elegance.
For decades, the Maison has worked with artists and maîtres d’art, allowing them to bring their vision and unique skills to one-of-a-kind pieces of jewellery and watchmaking.
This year, once again blending together artistic beauty and crafts-making perfection, two of the ultimate challenges in watchmaking, Piaget is opening a brand-new chapter.
The moon phase complication enters the Altiplano collection, introducing the Altiplano Moonphase.
Composed of four pieces, the exclusive métiers d’art collection takes savoir-faire and creativity to new heights, furthering the Maison’s decades-long relationship with masterful artists.
The four Métiers d’art Altiplano Moonphase watches are a work of pure beauty and precision, a luxury of intricate details and technicality made to fit on a 36mm-wide watch. Their dials were brought to life after two years of development. On a translucent blue enamel sky created by master enameller Anita Porchet, Chinese constellations are represented by small white dots and precious stones. Because Piaget loves to play with surprising designs and original features, each Guardian, representing a cardinal point and associated with one of the four seasons and elements, gently appears at night fall. The Azure Dragon stands for the East and is associated with Spring and wood; the red bird, representing the South, is close to Summer and fire. The white tiger, looking West, is naturally a friend of Autumn and metal, while the black turtle (for the North) is at ease in Winter and water.
For the purpose of respecting the Altiplano’s remarkable thinness aesthetics, the creative designs that adorn the watch’s dial had to be crafted on an infinitely small scale. Enamel and gold engraving require the highest level of expertise to fit the delicate mechanism of the Altiplano.
A beautiful story of elegance and creative prowess, told under a star-lit sky.
Underneath this star-lit night sky, moon rays of graduated diamonds, sapphires and garnets are set on the lower-half of the gold palace-decor dial. A true work of art that requires hours of work, and owes its radiance to multiple deails sprinkled across the various pieces: a deep, blue-lacquered moon-shaped oscillating weight, a moon window framed with gold ring set and graduated diamonds in a crescent moon shape… In each one of these creations, Piaget’s mastery is at the service of the deep significance of the constellations’ powers and of the Moon’s infinite radiance.
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch Ref. G0A47107
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch, 36 mm. Case in 18K white gold set with 48 baguette-cut diamonds (approx. 1.63 cts) and 12 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.11 ct). 18K gold dial engraved with Palace decoration, enamel, 68 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.28 ct), 7 brilliant-cut pink sapphires (approx. 0.08 ct), 7 brilliant-cut rubies (approx. 0.07 ct), 2 brilliant-cut sapphires (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut yellow diamonds (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut tsavorites (approx. 0.01 ct) and 2 brilliant-cut orange spessartites (approx. 0.01 ct). Crown set with a sapphire glass engraved with a P. Buckle set with 14 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.09 ct). Sapphire crystal case back. Interchangeable strap. 580P Altiplano Manufacture automatic mechanical movement with moon phases. Deep blue-lacquered moon-shaped oscillating weight. Limited edition of 8 individually numbered timepieces.
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery Ref. G0A47109
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch, 36 mm. Case in 18K rose gold set with 48 baguette-cut diamonds (approx. 1.63 cts) and 12 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.11 ct). 18K gold dial engraved with Palace decoration, enamel, 50 brilliant-cut sapphires (approx. 0.28 ct), 32 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.19 ct), 2 brilliant-cut yellow diamonds (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut tsavorites (approx. 0.02 ct), 2 brilliant-cut rubies (approx. 0.01 ct) and 2 brilliant-cut orange spessartites (approx. 0.01 ct). Crown set with a sapphire glass engraved with a P. Buckle set with 14 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.09 ct). Sapphire crystal case back. Interchangeable strap. 580P Altiplano Manufacture automatic mechanical movement with moon phases. Deep blue-lacquered moon-shaped oscillating weight. Limited edition of 8 individually numbered timepieces.
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch Ref. G0A47108
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch, 36 mm. Case in 18K rose gold set with 48 baguette-cut diamonds (approx. 1.63 cts) and 12 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.11 ct). 18K gold dial engraved with Palace decoration, enamel, 80 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.41 ct), 2 brilliant-cut rubies (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut sapphires (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut yellow diamonds (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut tsavorites (approx. 0.02 ct) and 2 brilliant-cut orange spessartites (approx. 0.01 ct). Crown set with a sapphire glass engraved with a P. Buckle set with 14 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.09 ct). Sapphire crystal case back. Interchangeable strap. 580P Altiplano Manufacture automatic mechanical movement with moon phases. Deep blue-lacquered moon-shaped oscillating weight. Limited edition of 8 individually numbered timepieces.
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery Ref. G0A47106
Altiplano Moonphase High Jewellery watch, 36 mm. Case in 18K white gold set with 48 baguette-cut diamonds (approx. 1.63 cts) and 12 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.11 ct). 18K gold dial engraved with Palace decoration, enamel, 44 brilliant-cut sapphires (approx. 0.21 ct), 38 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.22 ct), 2 brilliant-cut yellow diamonds (approx. 0.01 ct), 2 brilliant-cut tsavorites (approx. 0.02 ct), 2 brilliant-cut rubies (approx. 0.01 ct) and 2 brilliant-cut orange spessartites (approx. 0.01 ct). Crown set with a sapphire glass engraved with a P. Buckle set with 14 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.09 ct). Sapphire crystal case back. Interchangeable strap. 580P Altiplano Manufacture automatic mechanical movement with moon phases. Deep blue-lacquered moon-shaped oscillating weight. Limited edition of 8 individually numbered timepieces.
About Piaget
Piaget epitomizes daring creativity – a quality that has continued to permeate through the Maison since its beginnings in 1874. From his first workshop in La Côte-aux-Fées, Georges-Edouard Piaget devoted himself to crafting high-precision movements in a feat that formed the very foundations of our pioneering name. In the late 1950s, Piaget unveiled the ultra-thin movements that would later become the Maison’s trademark and the cornerstone of the Altiplano collection. As a true innovator of the watch and jewellery world, Piaget strongly believed in creativity and artistic values. It is within the walls of our “Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire” where master artisans continue to harness rare skills that have been preserved and perfected from generation to generation, transforming gold, stones and precious gems into dazzling works of art. Through its pursuit of masterful craftsmanship, the Maison has created emblems of daring excellence channelled into its collections including Altiplano, Piaget Polo, Limelight Gala, Possession, Piaget Sunlight, Piaget Rose and Extremely Piaget.