Piaget

ThomasM
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A request for a little history lesson...

In the perennial question about the so-called Big Three (ironically, in Taiwan and parts of Greater China, the "Three P's" include Piaget...) a large part of the justification for The Big Three is the fact that

a. they have a continuous and contiguous production history

b. with a consistent emphasis on haute de gamme - movements, movement finishing, cases and case materials. Thus, gold cases for PP, AP, and VC were always solid 18kt (I'm not 100% sure if there were ever 14kt cases, but I know there were never any plated, capped, or filled cases) and even their stainless models, rare as they were (before the Nautilus, Royal Oak, and VC sport lines) were finished to high standards.

What is the history of Piaget as far as their cases were concerned?

Were there ever 14kt, 12kt, gold capped or filled or plated models ever used by Piaget for their branded models?

I do know that, before their landmark 12P eccentric micro-rotor movement, they did use the rather pedestrian Bi-Dynator automatic movement in some models...

No disrespect intended, of course, but I've always felt true history is necessary to appreciate today, when Piaget is certainly well positioned among anyones' list of "top" brands in the haute de gamme.

Cheers,

TM

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