Iconic Piaget Polo Gets A Face Lift, Meet The Polo Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin Watch

It’s an art as well as a technical feat – fitting the complicated perpetual calendar function within an ultra-slim movement. It takes great watchmaking prowess – especially when it comes to combing these features in a legendary watch. But that is exactly what Swiss watch brand Piaget does with its newest Piaget Polo Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin watch.

The new timepiece, crafted in stainless steel is powered by the brand’s 1255P Caliber and boasts a moonphase display along with day, date, year and leap year – accurate to the year 2100 when all perpetual calendars will need a slight adjustment on March 1 because that year we will skip the scheduled leap year in order to have solar time and calendar time align.

Piaget has a long and storied past with ultra-thin movements and has been a leading pioneer over the decades in this field – unveiling many world firsts as far back as 1960 when it released the in-house-made 12P movement with micro rotor as the worlds thinnest automatic movement. The newest movement, the 1255 ultra-thin 4mm caliber, is endowed with 42 hours of power reserve, and was inspired by its 1200 P (a direct descendent of the 12P) caliber that features a micro-rotor in the 2.35 mm thin caliber. The new watch – complete with the complicated perpetual calendar functions, measures a scant 8.65mm in thickness and 42mm in diameter.

The watch boasts a rich green dial with a gadroon motif and subdials for the calendar indications and moon phases. It boasts modern Super-LumiNova markers, yet also features the gadroons that have graced this iconic case sine 1979. Sold with a stainless steel bracelet, it is endowed with a new interchangeable strap system, SingleTouch, and comes with a rubber strap with the pattern of the gadroon dial on it. The watch retails for $58,500.

An icon in watchmaking history, the Piaget Polo was created by Yves G. Piaget in 1979, who liked the idea of a sporty, yet sophisticated, watch that was more of a bracelet than a watch. In those days, yellow gold was all the rage and the watch was picture perfect. Yves aligned the Piaget brand with the sport of Polo and the watch fast became a luxury standard among celebrities. Not only did socialites like artist Andy Warhol and actor/singer Sammy Davis Jr. wear the watch, but also by the 1980’s a host of top television stars also donned the timepiece.