Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept; Customize The Watch That Won The GPHG

Piaget's most complex watch is not a Grande Sonnerie or multi-axis tourbillon, but a modest time-only. No additional complications are added because the watch itself is the complication. With a thickness of just 2mm is the Altiplano Ultimate Concept, the world's thinnest mechanical watch. To achieve this, every single part of the watch had to be completely redesigned. Piaget was entering a territory where nobody has gone before, not even themselves, as they already have a solid reputation of being one of the most skilled makers of ultra-slim movements.

By Adrienne Faurote

Four Watches That Prove That Thin Is In

While no official standards are indicating when a watch can be called (ultra-)thin, it is reasonably easy to pass your judgment about it. The heights of both the movement and the watch itself are common knowledge for most watches, and can therefore be compared to the record-holders in a specific category. Especially in recent years thin movements, and watches, have become en vogue again, as many people realized that in a sense they represent the nec plus ultra of the watch industry. Watches like the Bulgari Octo Finissimo also showed that it is not only classic dress watches that can benefit from this. Even the cool-factor of a modern-looking watch for every day, and every occasion, increases significantly when powered by an ultra-thin movement. Leave it to the following four watches to that thin is in.

Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept: The King Of Ultra-Thin

How thin can you go? For Piaget, this has been a question that they have been answering since the late 1950s, and early 1960s when they already set records with their manual wind caliber 9P and automatic caliber 12P. At the time, the goal wasn't purely to create the thinnest watch on the market, but more to give Piaget's designers as much freedom as possible when they create their timepieces. When we fast forward to today, we see a slightly different perspective. While Piaget's ultra-slim movements still give freedom to its designers and find their way in beautiful watches, being thin has gotten an appeal of its own.

Four Men’s Watches With Diamonds That Are Too Tempting To Turn Down

Diamonds on men's watches; some people love them, others can't stand them. But even those who are counting themselves among the last category might be tempted to at least, adjust their opinion with the following four watches. They are either quite subtle or go all in, but all bring something very special to the table that makes them in one way or another too tempting to turn down.

Watch of the Week: Piaget Altiplano

Class pur sang, that is, and always has been the Piaget Altiplano. A refined case, which is so distinctly understated that connoisseurs immediately know that they are looking at something special, houses a movement that comes from a royal lineage of ultra-slim movements.

Even Before SIHH Starts One Thing Is Clear: Blue Remains The New Black!

With SIHH only a short week away some trends can already be established from the pre-releases of the brands participating. One of them is the continuation of a phenomenon that we have seen develop over the last few years; the rise of watches with a blue dial. In fact, we are getting to the point that we can hardly call it a trend anymore, but more the new normal as blue seems to be here to stay in full force. These blue dial beauties will hit the boutiques in 2019!

Going All In For Christmas!

Christmas is a special time, for which most people make a little bit of extra effort. This often applies to decorations, the gifts they get, the way they give back, but also to the way they dress. With all the candles and dimmed lights, Christmas is also the perfect season to wear that diamond set watch. The lights show off that fire and scintillation, giving it just that little bit extra for the holiday season!

Four Watches For Which Understated Is No Overstatement

Understated watches are a realm of their own. They often require a connoisseurs eye to recognize them as something special, but special they are indeed. They please their owners with refined movement, subtle details and the knowledge that they have something exceptional around the wrist. They are the 'sleeper cars' of the watch industry, and these are four of the most desirable.

Haute Time’s Favorite Watches Of SIHH 2018

The Salon Internationale de Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, featured this year again a stunning line-up of the most beautiful watches. More then recent years.

The Blue Dials Of SIHH 2018

Last year after Baselworld I wrote an article about the many beautiful blue dials that caught my eye. This trend continues to live on, as also at this years SIHH, there where blue dials galore, including some very special one!

Piaget Altiplano Ultimate 910P: Looking Good While Breaking Records

It is a battle of titans, as Bulgari and Piaget compete with each other to create the world’s thinnest mechanical watches. In this battle, Piaget can bow down on a much longer history as it started its legacy in 1957 with the 2mm thick manual wind caliber 9P, followed in 1960 with the 2.3mm slender automatic caliber 12P. Over the course of the decades, it has mainly used these thin, and small, calibers to offer its designers almost unrestricted freedom, which has resulted in turn in some of the most breathtaking dress watches in the world.

Haute Time’s Favorite Watches Of SIHH 2018: Part I

The Salon Internationale de Haute Horlogerie, or SIHH, featured this year again a stunning line-up of the most beautiful watches. More then recent years the brands seem to be in touch with their own DNA, which resulted in a very pure watches that truly represented their brand, rather than just a trend. In such a company it is hard to call favorites, yet there where still some watches that grabbed our attention just a bit more than others.

3 Men’s Chronographs with Unisex Appeal

You could argue that the chronograph makes for the ultimate masculine men’s watch. Its affiliations with aviation, car racing and diving are what give it a defiant sporty edge, elements of which are conveyed through the aesthetic. And that’s exactly what makes them all the more appealing to the modern day woman.

Top 4 Favorite Case Backs

They might not always be the most obvious choices, but we fell in love with these four case backs for various, very good, reasons.

Top 10 Watches From The SIHH

Is there a slowdown in the watch industry? You wouldn't think so when you saw the new watches that the brands introduced during the SIHH. From complicated skeleton watches to understated dress watches, it was all there and everything in between. We picked out 10 favorites.

Gentleman Chronographs: Measuring The Passing Of Time In Style

Being instruments, tools, most chronographs lead a dynamic life. But there is another side to the chronograph, which as an elegant timekeeper for a gentleman, and the following watches might be among the highest on his wish list.

Piaget Celebrates The Altiplano 60th Anniversary

For Piaget, ultra-thin timepieces have been a reality since 1957. Now the brand celebrates the 60th anniversary of its first ultra-thin watch and its Altiplano collection with a masterful display of colours, sizes, artistic crafts and even a new tourbillon movement