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Piaget Won Two Prizes At the 2021 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève
Winning a prize at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève is a big thing. Winning two prize; now, that is what Piaget achieved at this year’s event.
◙ By D’Affluent Magazine
Piaget, once again in the spotlight at this year’s -2021- Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève; receiving two prizes for the best watch in the Ladies’ category for the Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow, and in the mechanical exception category for the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic. Last year Piaget was awarded the Aiguille d’or for the Altiplano Ultimate Concept.
Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow
Piaget has created many spectacular time pieces, but for the very first time, Piaget has created this year a rainbow setting with a spectacular array of green tsavorites (gemstones) and coloured sapphires ranging from red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet and taking centre stage around the bezel and on the lugs.
Spectacular tsavorites and coloured sapphires adorn the Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow.
The Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow watch showcases a 32mm rose gold case with a matching dial. Both the bracelet and the dial have been decorated with Piaget’s signature Palace Décor. This timepiece is the perfect fusion of the Maison’s expertise in watchmaking, goldsmithing and gem-setting.
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Piaget is one of the rare Maisons that has the savoir-faire to craft hand-made gold bracelets. The work of a chainsmith is similar to that of an Haute-Couture dressmaker. The artisan will start with hundreds of gold links, which will be tightly assembled.
The next step is the soldering of the countless miniature links that will result in a bracelet of remarkable suppleness. Only a few artisans, who work in Piaget’s “Atelier de l’Extraordinaire”, have the expertise to hand-engrave this pattern. The decoration alone took two hours to complete on the dial and eight hours to finish across the bracelet.
The stunning Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow in all its glamour.
Just look at the beautiful design.
ALTIPLANO ULTIMATE AUTOMATIC
The Altiplano Ultimate Automatic is rich from a legacy in ultra-thin movements that date back to 1957 and 1960 – with the birth of the historically thin 9P and 12P movements – the Altiplano collection continues the journey of the Maison’s savoir-faire in ultra-thin watchmaking.
The Altiplano Ultimate Automatic has an unusual and innovative construction that merges the case with the movement. This watch displays an ex-centred blue dial at 10 o’clock and a beautiful view on the movement. In spite of the watch’s thinness, the dial has incredible depth thanks to a reverse assembly of the bridges on the dial side of the watch.
The Altiplano Ultimate Automatic, an ultra-thin watch being built.
The raising of the bridges also prevents the watch from stopping when pressure is exerted on the sapphire crystal. The crystal will naturally and safely bend during everyday life or underwater, for example. So, instead of the crystal touching and stopping the hands, it is blocked by the raised bridges. This invention is protected by a patent that covers several of Piaget’s ultra-thin movements.
The beautiful Altiplano Ultimate Automatic.
Slim and skillfully built.
The suspended barrel is held by one single bridge on the dial side and a peripheral rotor made of blue coloured 22K gold that is highly visible as it spins around the outside of the movement, winding the watch as it goes. The rotor is made out of gold to give enough weight to make it turn efficiently and its peripheral design helps Piaget’s watchmakers to shave even more millimetres off of the movement’s height.
Receiving these watch prizes is such an honour for Piaget and its artisans and encourages the Maison to cultivate its savoir-faire and expertise to continue to innovate.
Limelight Gala Precious Rainbow
- Watch in 18 K rose gold
- Diameter 32 mm
- Bezel set with 5 brilliant cut green tsavorites (approx 0 91 ct) and 37 brilliant cut coloured sapphires ranging from red to orange, yellow, blue, indigo and violet (approx 7 90 cts)
- 18 K rose gold dial engraved with Palace Décor
- Piaget manufacture self winding mechanical movement 501 P 1
- Functions hours and minutes
- Sapphire case back
- 18 K rose gold bracelet engraved with Palace Décor and with integrated scale clasp
- Numbered edition
G - 0 A 46188
Altiplano Ultimate Automatic
- Watch in 18K white gold
- Diameter 41 mm
- Thickness 4 3 mm
- Piaget manufacture self winding automatic movement 910 P
- Fusion of case and movement
- 22 k gold peripheric oscillating weight with blue CVD and grey PVD coating
- Functions off centered hours and minutes
- Power reserve 48 hours
- Blue alligator leather strap with 18 K white gold ardillon buckleG
- 0 A 45123
*Courtesy of Piaget
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