Piaget has just been honoured by two awards for excellence: one for its Magic Hour ladies’ watch; and the other for the Altiplano Petite Seconde, which won the 1st Jury Prize in the “2008 Watch of the Year” awards.

Magic Hour

The jury of the specialised magazine Montres Passion, composed of watchmaking professionals, has awarded this year’s “Ladies’ Watch of the Year” prize to the surprising Piaget Magic Hour model, a daring and elegant avant-garde watch displaying inimitable creativity.
Both sublimely elegant and mischievous by nature, the “Magic Hour” plays with time and with conventions, doing exactly as it pleases. Three ways to be worn, three styles to be shown, three moods to be expressed… a magical and unique watch. For the very first time, thanks to an invisible mechanism, a timepiece is endowed with the unique power to be three watches in one.
Thirty-six diamonds light up the opulent elliptical gem-set bezel that turns above a delicately guilloché-patterned dial. Successively demure, unexpected or flamboyant, “Magic Hour” magnifies all aspects of femininity. It comes in two versions: white gold contrasting with a black satin strap, or pink gold enhanced a white satin strap – the variation that caught the jury’s attention.

Altiplano Petite Seconde

Naturally proud of this success, Piaget CEO Philippe Léopold-Metzger was downright thrilled by a second token of recognition in the form of the evening’s supreme reward: the “1st Jury Prize” awarded to the Altiplano Petite Seconde in white gold.
This model single-handedly embodies Piaget’s identity and its acknowledged expertise in the realm of the ultra-thin. Loyal to its characteristic pure lines and well-respected classicism, while also reaffirming the typical features of the Black Tie collection in a new 40 mm diameter, this Altiplano watch is equipped with Manufacture Piaget Calibre 838P. This ultra-thin 12-lignes hand-wound movement is a mere 2.5 mm thick.
While the new model retains the aesthetic codes of the Altiplano collection – a slender, elegant case and an understated dial with transferred hour-markers and baton-shaped hands – it is distinguished by its small seconds at 10 o’clock and by a Piaget logo at 3 o’clock ensuring a perfectly harmonious overall effect. The white gold case is fitted with a sapphire crystal back enabling one to admire all aspects of the movement decoration, such as circular Côtes de Genève and blued screws which are the signature features of Piaget movements.

Source: Piaget