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拍品专文
According to the Archives of Piaget, the present watch was manufactured in 1970.
Preserved in exceptional condition, this stunning bracelet watch is part of the sculptural Piaget “21st Century Collection”. The dial is made from a single wafer-thin piece of tiger’s eye and each of the hand-made textured 18K gold bracelet links is individually cast.
Piaget is known as "the jeweller of watch making" and it is no exaggeration to describe this watch as an artwork, a masterpiece of the jeweller’s craft. In common with all good design, the innate style of the piece transcends the vagaries of fashion, as utterly contemporary today as it was nearly fifty years ago.
From 1969, under the direction of Valentin Piaget, the company saw an unrestrained explosion of creativity. The designs created were resolutely avant-garde, breaking technical boundaries with dramatic uncompromising pieces carved out of solid gold and set with bold coloured stones. These “haute couture” pieces were totally in-tune with the wider world of fashion. When they were unveiled at the Basel Fair, the Journal de Genève of 15th April 1970 commented: “this year, Piaget has indulged its taste for colour by going for dials in precious stone, carved out of solid jade, lapis lazuli, opal, coral, turquoise and tiger’s eye. And this innovation, remember, is itself a creation of the House of Piaget”.
An almost identical watch was part of the exhibition “Montres et Merveilles - 200 créations rares provenant du Musée de l'Horlogerie de Genève et des Collections Privées Piaget”, Geneva, 13 April - 28 August 1994 and is illustrated on page 85 of the exhibition catalogue.
For further examples of Piaget models of the late 1960s and early 1970s see: Piaget, Florence Müller, 2014, pp. 193-219.
Preserved in exceptional condition, this stunning bracelet watch is part of the sculptural Piaget “21st Century Collection”. The dial is made from a single wafer-thin piece of tiger’s eye and each of the hand-made textured 18K gold bracelet links is individually cast.
Piaget is known as "the jeweller of watch making" and it is no exaggeration to describe this watch as an artwork, a masterpiece of the jeweller’s craft. In common with all good design, the innate style of the piece transcends the vagaries of fashion, as utterly contemporary today as it was nearly fifty years ago.
From 1969, under the direction of Valentin Piaget, the company saw an unrestrained explosion of creativity. The designs created were resolutely avant-garde, breaking technical boundaries with dramatic uncompromising pieces carved out of solid gold and set with bold coloured stones. These “haute couture” pieces were totally in-tune with the wider world of fashion. When they were unveiled at the Basel Fair, the Journal de Genève of 15th April 1970 commented: “this year, Piaget has indulged its taste for colour by going for dials in precious stone, carved out of solid jade, lapis lazuli, opal, coral, turquoise and tiger’s eye. And this innovation, remember, is itself a creation of the House of Piaget”.
An almost identical watch was part of the exhibition “Montres et Merveilles - 200 créations rares provenant du Musée de l'Horlogerie de Genève et des Collections Privées Piaget”, Geneva, 13 April - 28 August 1994 and is illustrated on page 85 of the exhibition catalogue.
For further examples of Piaget models of the late 1960s and early 1970s see: Piaget, Florence Müller, 2014, pp. 193-219.