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 Martin Green