Hi all so firstly my apologies for the long delay after my post on Ultra Thin movements but increasing pain levels seriously hampered my ability to put this post together. First of all I need to make it clear I am not an expert on Ultra Thin watches and a
Any among us may have admired a good backside (on any gender) now and then. Having a less-than-compelling one myself (trust me on this), I perhaps compensate by acquiring watches with interesting reverses. Mind you, I am no connoisseur of haute horlogerie
Dear Art, Thank you for your candid feedback and for expressing your concern. I completely understand why you might feel skeptical when someone mentions commerce in a first post, and I appreciate the vigilance you maintain on the WatchProSite forum. I wan
Hello fellow enthusiasts and collectors, I would like to share and get some more insight into a vintage Piaget I own, the Reference 12427. This is an elegant 18-karat yellow gold automatic dress watch, which I believe dates back to the late 1970s or early
The past decade or so has seen a number of companies, notably Bulgari, Piaget, and Richard Mille, engaged in a kind of race to the bottom to produce the thinnest mechanical wristwatch, with some models that appear to have garnered good press and apparent
The Octo Finissimo in bead-blasted, white gold-surfaced stainless steel, Ref. #BGO 40 STX. One of the very few integrated bracelet watches that appeal to me. (The others are not the usual suspects.) The wearing comfort here is fantastic, and as with many
The Piaget Altiplano Scrimshaw , launched in 2014, features a dial made from fossilized mammoth ivory that is then engraved with a map of the Eastern Hemisphere using traditional scrimshaw techniques. Coming from the Inuits and other tribes in the colder
putting the "original" and the modern Polo side by side, i do see similarity in the shape of their cases NB: Moderator text update. The Piaget Polo from 1979 and the modern Piaget skeleton watch represent two distinct eras of luxury watchmaking, showcasin
And especially on Watchbox, a platform with the intention of selling a watch, one has to assume they will naturally never be critical of their own product in a video. It's neither the place nor the time, and the questions it raises wouldn't be able to be
mesmerized by the artisanal dials which were collaborations between THE Anita Porchet (enamel) and Dick Steenman (engraver) and an engraved dial by Dick. The dials are very 3 dimensional but the cases are not too thick. So many details in the dials which