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Piaget PuristSPro event - South Coast Plaza - Thurs Oct 22 '09 - PART I: Watches

I had a great time meeting the good people at Piaget during the recent PuristSPro and Piaget event featuring a Louis XIII de Rémy Martin tasting.  It was also fantastic to meet some fellow PuristS and their significant others in person.

There were several pieces from the Polo line that caught my eye.  I offer two below.  Even in black & white the diamonds are dazzling.




One of the most whimsical and free-spirited timepieces from Piaget's Dancer series is below.  I love the dial design, and I also like that you can still use this piece to tell time thanks to the small, but still functional circular hour/minute indicators.  In person, the bracelet on this watch is detailed and very pretty, even if the dial remains the star of the timepiece.




A jeweled version of the Polo Chronograph.  Piaget is described as a manufacture with two hearts, one for haute joaillerie and one for haute horlogerie.  They are exceptional in both disciplines separately.  Sometimes those two hearts beat as one however, as seen in the example below.




The Polo Chronograph in rose gold is pictured below.  This model feels more subtle, and slightly dressier to me than its cousin, the Polo FortyFive Chronograph.





The Piaget Polo FortyFive Chronograph we have discussed at length on the site.  It's an impressive watch and you can see its sportiness and modernity here...



...as well as its elegance. 
 



Piaget reference G0A34043, is a stunning revival of a 1980s design from the manufacture.  The brushed finish white gold is chic and elegant.  The diamond gadroons run across the case, the dial and the bracelet of the watch, giving the piece a beautiful added dimension of horizontality.



The bracelet on this watch is a marvel.  According to Piaget it takes a skilled artisan three hours to simply satin brush the 72 parts that comprise the gold bracelet, and another hour to assemble it.



The watch is made in a limited individually-numbered run of 150 pieces to celebrate the Piaget Polo's 30th anniversary.



One of the best his-and-hers watch pairings IMO.



I couldn't resist pictures of these two pieces of jewelry from the Possession line.  IMO the rings would make fantastic non-traditional engagement bands, or awesome right-hand rings for the confident single ladies amongst us.




My favorite Piaget, the Altiplano Double Jeu.  Both the white and rose gold variations are lovely.  You really must see them in person!  My poor photos do them short shrift, and frankly even professional photos IMO don't sufficiently communicate the pleasant heft of the watch, the secret lower dial, and the reasonably thin height of the piece despite the fact that the watch houses two separate, wholly different movements.
 

The blue dial against the rose gold is so luscious!



Piaget's movement finishing is finely rendered and dynamic. 



The Double Jeu in white gold is elegant, stately, and yet has this element of surprise and fun due to its double movement design.



Below is a truly exceptional piece, the Piaget Polo Tourbillon Relatif.  The dial display is amazingly three-dimensional.  Coupled with the movement of the tourbillon it's a breathtaking timepiece. 



It was a fantastic outing to the Piaget Boutique in the Southern California town of Costa Mesa.  Thanks so much to our hosts from Piaget, who kindly posed for the photo below, and to the representatives from Louis XIII de Rémy Martin for the cognac tasting.