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PIAGET EXTRALEGANZA Bold Uniqueness
The year 2023 signifies Piaget’s time-travel back to its beginnings of bejeweled watchsmithing eminence upon ebullient designs reminiscent of its era in the 1960s and 1980s where today, proficiency and creativity come together with finesse and confidence in novel timepieces that throb with Piaget’s soul of boldness, uniqueness, and originality.
Superlative watch smithing and topnotch jewelry have always waltz in unison at Piaget since 1957, reaching new heights with the Aura high jewelry timepiece assortment in 1989. Today, Piaget returns again to the Aura by merging diamonds and sapphires. Driven by Piaget’s 430P Manufacture ultra-thin hand-wound mechanical movement that necessitate 260 hours of gem-setting work, the Aura line comes in two sizes and two color gradation.
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Piaget’s natural wonders of highly rated exceptionally brilliant colored ornamental stones that emit mystery and strength is shown by a new Piaget Polo Perpetual Calendar Obsidian iridescent silver obsidian dial. This iridescence is from mineral-rich sulfide liquid drips trapped in rock resulting in individual uniqueness where none is identical. The Maison’s passion for colored stones is seen as well in a bezel of deep blue sapphires set in dark claws.
Palace Decor of Piaget that was born in the 1960s was enthused by watchsmithing guilloché techniques where this art of engraving was initially applied on a gold link bracelet with artisan incision expertise hand-sculpting individually unique artistic grooves and outlines resulting in a perfect in its imperfection one-of-a-kind uniqueness. A novel cuff watch with a prominent Palace Decor robin-egg blue turquoise stone dial is only among 100 various choices of methods Piaget has become proficient in over the decades, which are applied on a diversity of bracelets.
In further deference to pioneering groundbreaking collections, two hand-crafted twisted gold chain necklaces with three magnificent hand-textured gold cuff watches are unveiled. The twisted gold is crafted by a single wire strand wrapped around to result in a coil that’s painstakingly handtwisted individually and formed into attuned identical links prior to construction assemblage. This hand-twisting process consumes 130 hours at minimum, bringing about entirely individually unique chains. A scintillating tassel-style Piaget necklace is set with a 25.38ct oval cabochon Zambian emerald with a matching Piaget 1960s signature oval-shaped dial with dial winding twisted gold, as its epitome of gold craftsmanship.
Founded in 1874 in the Swiss village of La Côte-auxFées, Piaget’s first premier salon boutique was in Geneva in 1959 where at this moment Piaget boutiques are in over 20 countries worldwide.
