For Watches and Wonders 2025, Piaget prepared a series of trapeze watches deeply rooted in the Maison’s design codes and elegant yet playful approach to its creations. The new Sixtie line has arrived with 4 wrist- and 2 sautoir models.
The 1960s was a decade of audacious experimentation in both design and lifestyle. The design language of the era was characterised by bold shapes, vibrant colours, interesting or even psychedelic patterns, and futuristic aesthetics. Mid-century modern furniture, Pop Art, and Op Art were popular. Space Age influences led to sleek, curved forms and newly developed materials.
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These directions had a profound impact on jewellery design, blending bold creativity with innovative materials and techniques. Although Piaget created expressive, avant-garde, and colourful designs, reflecting these broader artistic and cultural movements of these years, they remained the ‘House of Gold’ elevating glamour to the high society.
Around 1963, the company started combining precious metals with coloured hard stones including lapis-lazuli, jade, rubellite, onyx, tiger’s eye or hawk’s eye for timepieces. In the early 70’s, the Piaget Manchette watches became one of the most recognisable watch designs, making a clear statement about Piaget’s bold and flamboyant style and enthusiasm for jewellery timepieces. See a few interesting watches from the Piaget Private Collection here and two Manchette pieces here.
Sixtie
The brand new Sixtie collection presented at Watches and Wonders 2025, pays homage to this period and the brand’s earlier designs by reinterpreting the distinctive trapezoidal cases.
The Sixtie line offers various options, starting with a steel model, as well as a mixed-metal, two-tone version in steel and rose gold, along gold models with or without diamonds. These versions have a 29mm x 25.3mm case and satin-finished dials, golden hour markers, baton hands and two Roman numerals (6 and 12). The playful look is completed with a metal bracelet with trapezoid links. The watches are powered by manufacture quartz movements.
‘At Piaget, a timepiece is first and foremost a piece of jewellery,’ said Yves Piaget. The Swinging Sautoir by Piaget is a luxurious high-jewellery necklace watch, introduced in the 1970s, that blends elegance and craftsmanship, and moves together with its wearer.
The new collection would not be complete without high jewellery novelties. The Maison presented a ‘swinging sautoir’ Sixtie watch in pink gold, set with brilliant-cut diamonds. The dial is a beautiful opal, surrounded by diamond set and twisted-gold motifs.
Last year the master jewellers of the House played with malachite and turquoise beads on the haute joaillerie creations. In 2025, they opted for the slightly warmer hues of red, pink, orange and yellow. The latest transformable sautoir watch is a unique creation in rose gold with a ruby root dial and set with one cushion-cut pink spinel (approx.17.03 ct), one cabochon white opal (approx. 12.57ct), round-cut yellow sapphires, brillant-cut diamonds, cornaline and ruby root beads.
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