Piaget Polo watches

The Piaget Polo was created by Yves G. Piaget in 1979, and at first it came only in solid gold. Piaget described it as a watch bracelet rather than a mere wristwatch, and horizontal gadroons ran across the case, the bracelet and the dial. The name came from polo and the glamour around it, and in 1980 Ursula Andress became the face of the new watch at the World Polo Cup in Palm Beach. The first Polo was a quartz watch on Piaget's in-house calibre 7P.

Piaget relaunched the Polo in the autumn of 2001 with a larger case, bold Arabic numerals, a date at 6 o'clock and, for the first time, a mechanical movement. The Polo FortyFive followed for the collection's 30th anniversary: 45 mm, water-resistant to 100 m and Piaget's first watch in titanium. It runs on in-house movements, the self-winding 800P with two barrels and 72 hours of reserve, or the 880P, a self-winding flyback chronograph with a second time zone. The Polo resurfaced in 2016 after a complete facelift, and the S of the all-steel Polo S stands for steel.

The gold Polos are in pink or white gold, from small 29 and 32 mm quartz models up to 43 and 44 mm chronographs, many with a diamond bezel or a fully paved dial. The 44 mm chronograph G0A38102 in pink gold pairs a diamond bezel with a mother-of-pearl dial. The Polo S is a 42 mm steel watch, 9.4 mm thick as a three-hander and 11.2 mm as a chronograph. The FortyFive also comes in ADLC-coated versions of both the three-hander and the chronograph.

Among the tourbillons are the Polo Tourbillon at 39 and 44 mm with diamond-paved dials and the 45 mm white gold Polo Tourbillon Relatif. The Venice and Samarkand versions of the Relatif are unique pieces with blue enamel dials, from Piaget's 2015 collection Secrets & Lights, A Mythical Journey, inspired by those two cities.