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The high jewellery designers daring to pair precious and humble materials

Cartier’s Le Voyage Recommencé sees coral beads paired with turquoise stones, while Boucheron’s The Power of Couture combines elements from ceremonial garments with diamonds and rock crystal

8 Jul 2024 - 1:16PM

Timepieces

Time on a string: how celebs are driving the pendant watch trend

16 Jun 2024 - 3:00PM

Timepieces

High voltage: why the yellow gold watch is retaking the crown

18 May 2024 - 5:00AM

Timepieces

Watches and Wonders 2024: Style’s wrap from the world’s biggest watch fair

Footballer Kylian Mbappé and model Gisele Bündchen were among the almost 50,000 visitors to Geneva’s epic watch event – here’s our full report

22 Apr 2024 - 2:15PM

Watches and Wonders in Geneva brought together the leading names in watchmaking from April 9-15, as well as A-list watch ambassadors like Hublot’s Kylian Mbappé and IWC’s Gisele Bündchen. Photo: WWGF/Keystone

Special Report - Jewellery

Maximum impact: how bold, colourful high jewellery is brightening the season

From sea anemones to the four seasons to the birth of planet Earth, the natural world is providing inspiration for maximalist jewellery pieces, with Boucheron and Piaget joining the trend

4 Jan 2024 - 5:00PM

Special Report - Jewellery

Divas to disco: how retro culture is driving today’s high jewellery designs

Boucheron cites the 80s Rubik’s Cube and New Wave, Stephen Webster channels New Romantic pop, Tiffany & Co. and Piaget are inspired by 70s disco, while Chanel looks back to its 30s Jazz Age collection

28 Dec 2023 - 4:00PM

Timepieces

Time on a ring: how fine jewellers are reviving the ring watch

From playful Barbie themes to embedded Rolex dials, jewellers and watchmakers are looking beyond the wrist for those who want to make a style statement

21 Dec 2023 - 12:00PM

Celebrity style

Androgyny and the timepiece: the male celebrities wearing women’s watches

Lionel Messi, Bad Bunny, Timothée Chalamet and The Weeknd are among the new generation of stars choosing the smaller dials and greater ornamentation of ‘women’s’ timepieces

13 Oct 2023 - 3:00PM

High Jewellery

Art, nature, volcanoes? The biggest high jewellery launches of 2023 so far

All the big maisons are dreaming up ever more outlandish concepts driven by the surging demand for bling. So, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Gucci, Cartier, Chanel … who hosted the most memorable bash so far?

13 Jul 2023 - 11:47AM

Timepieces

Why all the big jewellery houses are dropping secret watches in 2023

‘Secret’ watches might be an antiquated holdover from a less egalitarian era, but Chanel, Dior, Piaget, Van Cleef & Arpels and Jaeger LeCoultre all just released new high jewellery designs for a reason

25 May 2023 - 8:00AM

Earlier this year, at the Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva, key brands like Chanel, Dior, Piaget, Van Cleef & Arpels and Jaeger LeCoultre all released new secret watch designs

Timepieces

Is the necklace watch 2023’s hottest timepiece trend? Gen Z think so

The centuries-old sautoir or necklace watch is making a comeback, primarily as a eye-catching piece of jewellery that just happens to also tell the time should you need it

30 Apr 2023 - 8:00AM

Timepieces

5 of the best luxury timepieces with perpetual calendar functions

Horological heaven: from Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Polaris, here are 5 incredible luxury timepieces with a perpetual calendar functions

23 Mar 2023 - 9:00AM

Timepieces

The race to make the thinnest watch: how Richard Mille claimed the world record

The last year has seen the record for the world’s thinnest watch change hands twice – here’s how the race between Piaget, Bulgari and Richard Mille unfolded

27 Jan 2023 - 3:14PM

Jewellery 2022

Outside the box: colourful gems to wear in an alternative engagement ring

If the classic white diamond doesn’t quite tell your love story, how about a blue cocktail ring from Piaget or yellow diamond from Ronald Abram?

19 Dec 2022 - 3:58PM

High Jewellery

5 spectacular high jewellery rings with showpiece sapphires

Chanel, Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget and Chaumet have all turned to the alluring blue gemstone to anchor their dazzling high jewellery rings

18 May 2022 - 5:05PM

High Jewellery

Channel House of Gucci’s Lady Gaga with these 5 dazzling jewellery pieces

In House of Gucci, Lady Gaga showed how colourful jewellery from the likes of Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Graff can truly leave an impact

14 Jan 2022 - 4:43PM

High Jewellery

Wear it like a winner: 5 high jewellery pieces that scream success

And the award goes to … these jaw-dropping jewels that can’t fail to grab attention whether or not you’re Dua Lipa strutting a red carpet in glittering awards season style

16 May 2021 - 9:47PM

Timepieces

Rolex winners, Swatch losers after rough year for Swiss luxury watches

More expensive Swiss luxury watch brands have coped with the pandemic better than cheaper counterparts, a report says, with strong Chinese demand for mid-price brands driving the market.

10 Feb 2021 - 6:45PM

A Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31 with a bezel set with 46 brilliant-cut diamonds and an aubergine, sunray-finish dial with a diamond-set VI.

XXIV 2020

How watch collector Austen Chu went from influencer to instigator

After his once-anonymous Horoloupe IG page caught the eye of major brands, he suggested a China limited edition to Audemars Piguet and is now set to launch resale site WristCheck

5 Dec 2020 - 12:00PM

Timepieces

How luxury watchmakers have embraced VR online boutiques during Covid-19

Watch brands are trying out augmented reality headsets and virtual assistants – while old-school holdouts, like Rolex, insist technology is not immersive enough yet

6 Oct 2020 - 10:08AM

High Jewellery

Can these hard stones really heal and ward off evil?

From ancient Egyptians to New Age hippies, hard stones have long been thought to possess magical properties, and are now undergoing a revival in the watch and jewellery world

20 May 2020 - 10:58AM

High jewellery featuring hard stones, such as Bulgari’s Cinemagia collection, is making a comeback. Photo: Bulgari

Timepieces

What are the most expensive watches you can buy online?

A rose gold Jaeger-LeCoultre ladies Calibre 101 costs HK$1.01 million on Net-a-Porter, or men can purchase the HK$2.89 million Roger Dubuis Excalibur Pirelli ICE ZERO 2 with a few clicks on Mr Porter

27 Feb 2020 - 4:53AM

Would you be proud to show off this HK$1.43 million timepiece, the HM9 Flow Air limited edition watch from MB&F? No question mark required. Photo: MB&F

Cartier

Are yellow diamonds a girl’s best friend? Lady Gaga thinks so

Piaget, Chanel, Chaumet, Chopard, David Morris, De Beers, Cartier and Chopard all featured precious yellows in their collections

8 Jan 2020 - 3:12AM

Fashion

Why smartwatch trend is good for the luxury watch industry

Singaporean luxury retail group boss Michael Tay says wearing a smartwatch could stoke a young consumer’s appetite for a mechanical watch later on. He reflects on the future of bricks-and-mortar retailing and the importance of service.

6 Jan 2020 - 5:08PM

High Jewellery

Why do high jewellers like LV and Cartier want Kashmir and Burmese sapphires?

At the Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels auction by Christie’s a pair of earrings went for US$320,513 and a brooch went for US$4.33 million

30 Dec 2019 - 2:00PM

Louis Vuitton’s Le Royaume bangle is an example of high jewellers using sapphires to create luxury pieces. Photos: Handouts

Auctions

Who is Claude Sfeir, one of the world’s top watch collectors?

The timepiece collector, who was 18 when he began working in Dubai’s famous gold market, owns a one-of-a-kind Patek Philippe watch and made sure his father could retire early

30 Dec 2019 - 2:00AM

Claude Sfeir is a top collector of vintage watches among other precious investment items. Photo: Handout

High Jewellery

Diamonds are a man’s best friend – just ask Floyd Mayweather

Professional boxer Floyd Mayweather’s US$18 million Jacob & Co. Billionaire watch and Jay-Z’s Big Bang $5 Million timepiece – a birthday gift from wife Beyoncé – are examples of how diamond watches can make a spectacular personal statement

28 Sep 2019 - 4:00PM

Timepieces

Which of these 5 luxury watches is the thinnest in the world?

Five beautifully encased and technologically advanced wafer-thin timepieces from Audemars Piguet, Bulgari, Vacheron Constantin, Piaget and Chopard – but which one is the slimmest watch ever made?

21 Aug 2019 - 2:00AM

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Piaget

Swiss luxury watch and jewellery brand

Chairman / President

Philippe Léopold-Metzger

CEO / Managing Director

Philippe Léopold-Metzger

CFO / Finance Director

Giorgio Ferrazzi

Industry

Luxury Goods, Watchmaking, Jewelry

Website

piaget.com

Headquarters address

12, Rue du Rhône, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Year founded

1874

last updated:

30 September, 2024