INTRODUCING: THE NEW PIAGET SIXTIE COLLECTION

“DO WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE”

1969 marked a turning point for Piaget and the wider watchmaking world: staying true to the family mindset “Do what has never been done before”, Piaget unveiled the 21st Century Collection at the Basel Fair.

By redrawing the boundaries between watchmaking and the art of jewellery, Piaget reinvented the jewellery watch. As Yves Piaget said, from now on “A Piaget watch is first and foremost a piece of jewellery”. It took on the shape of a cuff or a Swinging Sautoir with bold designs. A new way to wear time was born. Among these avant-garde creations, the trapeze shape, so unexpected, with a rule-breaking extravagance to its free-form interpretation, fast became a Piaget stylistic signature.

“A Piaget watch is first and foremost a piece of jewellery”, said Yves Piaget. Sixtie adorns the wrist like a jewel, revealing a free-spirited femininity that is as distinctive as it is inspiring. Standing out from the crowd, its trapeze shape brings together the Maison’s heritage and the present in a graceful balance between the extravagance and the elegance.

FREE SHAPE, FREE SPIRIT, FREE EXPRESSION

Almost 60 years later, Piaget is celebrating the flamboyant creativity of its heritage, paying homage to its golden age, the 60s.

Sixtie reinvents the trapeze shape that plays such a vital role in Piaget’s story of artistry and audacity. This asymmetrical form is lusciously softened, recalling the 1969 Swinging Sautoirs of the 21st Century collection. Its angles as if melted into strong yet sensual lines, creating a unique shape that seems to shift between trapeze, square, round or cushion. Free-spirited and free-form, free from the constraints of convention or expectation, in the true Piaget style; the play of shapes.

A WATCH WITH CHARACTER

The signature gadroons on the bezel refer to the Piaget 14101, a Beta 21 quartz watch, the first timepiece to feature the chiselled lines. These delicate lines playing with light tell of Piaget’s mastery of gold.

The sophisticated gold bracelet, with its trapezoidal links echoing the trapezoidal shape of the case, fits like a second skin on the wrist. Its suppleness and radiance are a further expression of the mastery of Piaget artisans in the shaping of gold.