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03 March 2021 |
Piaget,
Watch Reviews,
Luxury Watches,
Ultra-thin watches,
Browsing Piaget's recent history reveals that the Swiss manufacturer has built eight different skeletonized calibers and more than ten variations so far. The brand's expertise in this class of products is apparently second to the long-established ultra-thin movement; however, when combined, skeletonization and ultra-thin turn a timepiece into a kind …
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03 February 2021 |
Piaget,
Watch Reviews,
Luxury Watches,
Ultra-thin watches,
Piaget is synonymous with all things ultra-thin as well as with old school craftsmanship. The ultra-thin technology is not exclusive to the Geneva-based watch brand any longer, yet prove me wrong if you believe there's a brand safeguarding this legacy just as well as Piaget. Other competitors like Bulgari and …
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24 April 2020 |
Piaget,
Ultra-thin watches,
Watches and Wonders,
Piaget has crafted ultra-thin watches for over 60 years. Its flagship, the Altiplano, has been long synonymous with a thinnest mechanical watch, apart from a short period during which Bulgari has topped this particular ranking with the multiple-award-winning Bulgari Octo Finissimo. However, these watches are very different from each other. …
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14 April 2019 |
Bulgari,
Ultra-thin watches,
If you think that Baselworld 2019 was boring, take a look at what Bulgari came up with instead. The 2019 edition will be long remembered not as the most exciting one so far, but instead as a changeover between old and new formula, according to an official press release from the …
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12 January 2019 |
Bulgari,
Did You Know,
Ultra-thin watches,
After Piaget regained its leadership as the maker of the world's thinnest automatic watch over Bulgari, the LVMH owned Italian brand still holds that of thinnest automatic tourbillon watch's maker. The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic is the fourth watch in a series of ultra-thin watches designed by Bulgari and …
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27 September 2018 |
Piaget,
Did You Know,
Ultra-thin watches,
The world's thinnest automatic watch is a Piaget, in particular the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P which is only 4.3mm thick and was presented at this year's SIHH 2018. The challenge in who's building the thinnest automatic watch in the world has always seen the best brands compete since the first wristwatch was …
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05 August 2018 |
Bulgari,
Ultra-thin watches,
A few years ago, when the Octo was first launched, I could see a watch that, for the first time, was breaking the traditional watchmaking patterns and reinterpreted them - it represented a gamble also for a brand that had never dared so much before on a watch, but that …
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20 January 2018 |
Piaget,
Ultra-thin watches,
We are attending the 2018 SIHH in Geneva, and a few weeks after its presentation in our flash news section, we have eventually managed to touch with our very own hands the brand new and innovative Piaget Altiplano Ultimate 910P. So far, the 2018 SIHH has brought us several new …
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18 December 2017 |
Piaget,
Ultra-thin watches,
Leadership is something that you need to conquer and then maintain and Piaget will do just that at the upcoming SIHH 2018 by releasing the thinnest automatic timepiece in the world; the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P. The passion and skills of the Piaget maison for ultra-thin watches started at …
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27 March 2017 |
Bulgari,
Ultra-thin watches,
When the Bulgari Octo was presented to the public, it was quite clear to me that the maison wanted to create a new watch icon. Bulgari started some years ago to build its fully integrated manufacturing facilities and aimed, in my opinion, at concretely getting its foot in the men's watch industry by …
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