Introducing New Editions Of The Piaget Polo Perpetual Calendar Extremely-Skinny

The Polo watch of 1979 was Piaget’s extremely profitable sporty-chic watch accounting for practically one-third of the corporate’s gross sales within the Eighties. Following a radical makeover in 2016, the cushion-shaped Polo has appeared with mechanical issues, excessive and low, and even skeletonised excessive jewelry fashions. As a grasp of ultra-thin actions for the reason that mid-Nineteen Fifties, final month Piaget added an ultra-thin perpetual calendar complication to the Polo combine inside a 42mm chrome steel case. Piaget can be synonymous with vibrant semi-precious stone dials and, because the proprietor of the biggest jewelry workshop in Geneva, gemstone setting can be an integral a part of the model’s DNA. Two fashions, one in pink gold with a inexperienced dial and an distinctive white gold mannequin with a blue obsidian dial and blue sapphires, enrich the Polo assortment.

Sharing equivalent specs to the metal mannequin launched in March 2023, the Piaget Polo Perpetual Calendar Extremely-Skinny comes within the typical cushion-shaped chrome steel case with a flat spherical bezel. It has a 42mm diameter, a peak of 8.65mm and 30m water-resistance. The 18k pink gold mannequin shares the identical emerald inexperienced dial because the metal mannequin with its signature horizontal gadroons. The perpetual calendar format, with the month and intercalary year indicator at midday, the date at 3 o’clock, the day of the week at 9 o’clock and the moon part at 6 o’clock can be equivalent to the metal mannequin.

Obsidian dial

Using Piaget’s long-standing expertise in stone dials, the blue mannequin encompasses a mysterious silvery blue obsidian dial framed by different-sized blue sapphires in darkish claws set within the bezel. Produced when lava from a volcano cools quickly, obsidian is a type of volcanic glass. The pure iridescence discovered within the obsidian dial of this watch is fashioned when drops of mineral-rich sulphide liquid are trapped within the rock because it solidifies, a phenomenon that ensures that no two stones are alike.

ULTra-thin calibre 1255

The motion powering the perpetual calendar capabilities is Piaget’s in-house calibre 1255, based mostly on Piaget’s well-known, ultra-thin (2.35mm) 1200P computerized calibre with a perpetual calendar module. Because of the incorporation of a micro-rotor, this computerized motion has a thickness of simply 4mm. With a frequency of 21,600vph and an influence reserve of 42 hours, the perpetual calendar perform gained’t want adjusting till 2100.

The pink gold mannequin is offered on a textured inexperienced rubber strap, whereas the white gold comes on a blue alligator strap with an extra rubber strap. The Piaget Perpetual Extremely-Skinny fashions have the model’s SingleTouch interchangeable strap/bracelet system.

Worth

The pink gold Polo Perpetual Calendar Extremely-Skinny mannequin retails for EUR 77,500, and the white gold with an obsidian dial for EUR 116,000. Extra data at piaget.com.