Piaget watches

Piaget was founded in 1874 by Georges Edouard Piaget in La Côte-aux-Fées, in the Swiss Jura, as a maker of watch movements; its manufacture remains in the village. The company later sold watches under its own name and is now a watch and jewellery house, part of the Richemont group since 1988.

Ultra-thin movements are a speciality of the company; the first, the 2 mm hand-wound Calibre 9P, dates from 1957. Its collections include the Altiplano, which continues this ultra-thin line, and the Polo, introduced in 1979.