Piaget Yellow Gold Automatic Dress Watch, 1970s

Dealer description — Analog/Shift

For much of its existence, Piaget operated quietly behind the proverbial curtain, producing some of the most horoligicaly impressive mechanical movements in Switzerland. But when the Piaget name was displayed on a dial, the brand embodied a distinguishable lavish style that became synonymous with a period of opulence, representative of the 1960s and 1970s. Their stunning creations were worn by icons of style – Andy Warhol, Roger Moore, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Elvis Presley, to name but a few. This Reference 13432 dates to the 1970s and is housed in a 33mm x 31mm 18k yellow gold ‘television’ style cushion case that features beautiful chamfered edges and a stepped bezel. Its sunburst champagne dial features applied gold tone indices, a ‘dauphine’ handset, a date window at 3 o’clock and a stylized Piaget wordmark printed at 12 o'clock. Powered by a micro rotor automatic movement, this thin-profile Piaget wears larger - and smacks harder on the wrist - than its case dimensions would suggest! Artistically expressive 1960s and 1970s pieces from Piaget - okay, all pieces from Piaget - are having a moment and this particular example has all the hallmarks of a great vintage piece; an honest case and excellent dial, impressive thinness, and fab style for days. Dressed in our Vesper Green Alligator-Pattern Leather Strap with a signed 18k pin buckle, it exudes the brand’s signature playfulness when it comes to messing around with color. We'd rate this about a 110 on the cool-old-shitometer!