A quest for elegance, driven by intrepid craftsmanship, the new Piaget Polo Skeleton marries the elaborate spheres of High Jewellery with the ingenuity of Haute Horlogerie. A symphony of master gem-setting to exalt the everyday with extravagance.
The legacy of the Piaget Polo collection pens its story around the dynamic of dualities. Sophisticated yet sporty, glamorous yet distinctive, the Piaget Polo is both, and at most, a totem of the Maison’s presiding arc: a synthesis where High Watchmaking meets High Jewellery. For a watch to become essential, it must be daring in spirit and disruptive by design. Since 1979, the Piaget Polo collection has set out to embody such attitudes, championing self-expression, an audacious essence, and bold modernity. The mood of this era promised extravagance, elegance, and flamboyance, which manifested in a watch that blurs the lines between the casual and exceptional: the Piaget Polo.
Enduring in intent, expertise in Piaget’s skeletonization techniques is rooted as far back as 1948, with horological creations taking shape throughout the decades across the Piaget Polo collection or the Piaget Polo Emperador. Open-worked mastery has continued to remain at the heart of the Maison, from the reimagined Piaget Polo Skeleton watch in 2021, and for the first time, a novel Piaget Polo Skeleton, conceived in an elegant ceramic for Watches and Wonders Shanghai 2024.
PRECIOUS TIME
Since its creation in 1979, the “raison d’être” of this unisex timepiece is to welcome sophistication to the wrist. Today, the Piaget Polo Skeleton is rendered to life in its newest form to date: the Piaget Polo Skeleton High Jewellery, a limited edition of 5 timepieces. Paying homage to the Maison’s skillset in skeletonization, the latest iteration showcases the elegance of aesthetics illuminated through the technical prowess of movement design. Spotlighting the beating heart of the watch, an ultra-thin self-winding skeleton-set 1200D1 movement, takes center stage for all to see.
Amplifying the everyday, the skeletonization is elevated to further heights, in keeping with the Maison’s codes of elaborateness for bold identities. Intricate engravings of the Maison’s coat of arms take shape on the oscillating weight. Through the finesse of the Piaget Polo’s unique case shape, the Maison plays on the Piaget Polo’s audacious spirit with a unique sapphire-set bezel, in a harmony of tones to achieve the intensity of a mosaic effect.
A VISION IN BLUE
In this next chapter of Piaget’s bequest for effortless distinction, the Piaget Polo family grows with a precedent on the passion of refinement, in a unique 42mm offering that epitomizes watchmaking mastery, where beauty lies in the minutiae of detail. Paying homage to the Maison’s expertise in gem-setting and legitimacy in watchmaking, this timepiece is staged in a vision of deep, vibrant blue, proposing bold flamboyance for any occasion, whenever the moment, wherever the place.
Through the pattern of precious stones, a sea of blue is achieved through a combination of 3.01 carats sapphires and 5.4 carats of diamonds, with blue sapphire applied indexes and a diamond-set skeleton frame, entirely set by hand. Echoing Piaget’s affinity for the tranquillity of blue, a tonal leitmotif in the Maison’s storytelling, this transformative sports watch positions itself as a playground of expression, with gradient stones carefully selected in sizes from 0.70mm to 1.6mm.
Provocation of what seems obvious is the blueprint of the Piaget Polo Skeleton’s identity. This next chapter adds another page in the Maison’s virtuosity for skeletonization; of challenging the wearer to stare right into the technical heart of a watch, to revel in the beauty of Haute Horology finishing and the exuberant oeuvre when combined with high jewellery know-how. The result: an eternal timepiece to embrace every day with sophistication.
