Manufacturer
Piaget
Also recorded as: Piaget SA · Georges Piaget · Piaget & Co.
Jura movement maker that became a Geneva jewellery-watch house, known for ultra-thin calibres.
Georges-Édouard Piaget set up a workshop making movements and components at La Côte-aux-Fées in the Neuchâtel Jura in 1874, supplying other brands for decades. Watches under the Piaget name followed in the twentieth century, and the company opened premises in Geneva in the 1950s.
Piaget's reputation rests on very thin movements — the hand-wound calibre 9P of 1957 and the automatic 12P of 1960, which used a micro-rotor — and on gold and gem-set watches with hardstone dials such as lapis lazuli, malachite and opal, popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The Polo appeared in 1979. Piaget has been part of the Richemont group since 1988.
- Country
- Switzerland
- City / centre
- La Côte-aux-Fées / Geneva
- Founded
- 1874
- Status
- Active (Richemont)
- Key people
- Georges-Édouard Piaget
Innovations & specialities
- Ultra-thin hand-wound calibre 9P (1957)
- Ultra-thin automatic calibre 12P with micro-rotor (1960)
- Hardstone dials (1960s–70s)
Works by Piaget in the catalogue
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Wristwatches · c. 1960
Fine Lady's Gold Wristwatch, Piaget, c. 1960
LiveAuctioneers auction archive
Wristwatches · 1970
18ct white gold Piaget ref. 9178 diamond and sapphire set bracelet watch, 1970
Somlo Antiques (dealer), London
Wristwatches · 1970s
18ct yellow gold Piaget ref. 9706 bracelet watch with mother of pearl dial, 1970s
Somlo Antiques (dealer), London
Wristwatches · 1970s
Piaget Altiplano White Gold Diamond and Onyx Dial Ref 9200, 1970s
Bulang & Sons (dealer), Copenhagen
Wristwatches · c. 1970s
Piaget Lady's 18k White Gold Dress Watch with Diamond Bezel, circa 1970s
Vintage Watch Specialist (dealer), United Kingdom
Wristwatches · c. 1970s
Piaget White Gold 'Twin Time' Dress Watch, c. 1970s
Analog/Shift (dealer), New York
Wristwatches · c. 1972
Piaget, Lady's Diamond, Sapphire & Opal White Go, c. 1972
LiveAuctioneers auction archive
Wristwatches · c. 1980
Piaget “Tank Allongee”, ref. 9228, circa 1980
Watches of Knightsbridge (dealer), London
Wristwatches · c. 1980s
Piaget Polo Square 7131 Yellow Gold & Diamonds, circa 1980s
Watches of Knightsbridge (dealer), London
Wristwatches · early 1980s
Piaget Tradition in 18K White Gold "Onyx 4-Diamond Dial" Ref. 9771P31, early 1980s
Bulang & Sons (dealer), Copenhagen
Wristwatches · c. 1980
Piaget. An 18K gold manual wind wristwatch Ref: 9287, circa 1980
LiveAuctioneers auction archive
Wristwatches · c. 1990s
Piaget wristwatch, ref. 9154, Onyx, circa 1990s
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Linked through the Atlas maker authority list, which reconciles the spellings used by different institutions. Attributions are as stated by each holding institution or auction house.
