Georges Édouard Piaget, the brain behind society

It all actually started in a small village called "The Village of the Fairies" La Côte-aux-Fées , located at an altitude of about 1000 meters in the Swiss Jura Mountains, where Georges Piaget lived. His passion for watch making was present from a young age, when in 1874, at the age of only 19, he created his first workshop on the family farm. Even then, Georges dedicated himself to creating high-precision components, with his motto throughout the years being "always do better than necessary."

The attitude by which Piaget lived led him to create and surpass the existing, and to supply orders to world-renowned firms. In 1911, the Piaget company passed into the management of Timothée Piaget. The son of Georges Piaget, he was the one who turned the company into a manufacturer of luxury watches and pocket watches.

In 1943, the company became a registered trademark at the initiative of Gerald Valentine Piaget, George's grandson, and two years later a larger manufacturing plant was also established in the "Fairy Village" area, which laid the foundation for the Piaget company as we know it today. A few years later, in 1957, the company launched one of its most famous and groundbreaking models, the Calibre 9P. , which is based on a flat mechanism only 2 mm thick, and in 1960 the company launched the Caliber 12P model. , which is based on the world's flattest mechanism, which is officially recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

In 2001, a new factory was built in the village of Plan-les-Ouates . ) near the city of Geneva, which employs over 40 professionals in the field of watches and jewelry, and a year later, in 2002, the factory launched the Caliber 600P model. , containing the first mechanism based on spinning.

The uniqueness of watches

There is no doubt that Piaget's luxury watches are characterized by an unparalleled uniqueness. The factory combines a wide range of disciplines that work together to create the finished product, including design by renowned luxury jewelers, to packaging and shipping. The company develops and manufactures the mechanical mechanisms of the products within the factory walls, which allows it to be groundbreaking and unique in its field. Its watches are characterized by a number of skills that make them prestigious and sought-after:

- The spinning mechanism, which was developed over about three years, has the flattest shape in the world (3.5 mm thick).

- 9 P model mechanisms The mechanical model 12 P , the automatic, each of which is considered the model with the flattest mechanism in its category.

- Reverse and automatic movement mechanisms, central display of hours, minutes and seconds, as well as a date, equipped with two barrel barrels allowing for a 72-hour operating range.

- Commemorating the art of miniature painting on the various models using the enamel glazing technique. The company's glazing artist uses unprocessed enamel blocks, sands them and creates a kind of powder from them, which he mixes with extracts and oils with coupling ability in order to obtain the entire color palette.

- Piaget takes care to incorporate gemstones into its creations. This is made possible by the fact that the company also includes the most important goldsmith's workshop in Geneva. The gemstones and diamonds are set with extreme care and by hand, and there is a guarantee of using the provenance of the diamonds.