A series of magnificent bejewelled pendant watches give new meaning to the phrase the Swinging Sixties.
It’s a chance for the Swiss luxury brand to showcase its enduring triumvirate of skills in jewellery and watchmaking: one, its mastery of ultra-thin watch movements that ensure a lightweight, wearable result; two, its gold craftsmanship expertise from engraving to chain-making; and three, its artistry in cutting colourful hard stones such as malachite, tiger’s eye and lapis lazuli.
The new collection takes inspiration from Piaget’s original 1969 creations and heightens the luxury with diamonds and emeralds. These are skills that have long been a signature of the house. Jean-Bernard Forot, Piaget’s head of patrimony, says the original 1969 collection of watch sautoirs , was created during an era when the company was led by Valentin Piaget, grandson of its founder, Georges-Edouard. “Valentin was always pushing for the unexpected and never-done-before,” he says.
“It was not only an amazing period of creativity at Piaget, but also of social evolution and freedom in wider society,” says Forot. “Women were no longer copying the style of their mothers, they wanted their own things, their own pleasures.”
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