Description
Piaget’s ultra-thin Altiplano is a watch for those who appreciate discretion and refined complications. Forget those hulking great big watches that sit on the wrist like a can of tuna, shred your shirt cuff and set off security alerts, the smart way to wear a watch is to go for the slim-line look. And ultra-thin is Piaget’s speciality. In fact, this year, Piaget is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the arrival of its legendary Calibre 12P that in 1960 was hailed as the thinnest self-winding mechanical movement. 2010 sees a re-incarnation of this lithe movement with the presentation of the Calibre 1200P that has set new records. The Calibre 1200P movement is a mere 2.35mm high and the Altiplano anniversary edition is itself but 5.25 mm thick. With a purist approach, rather than clutter the dial, this gentlemanly timekeeper limits itself to tracking only hours and minutes. Afterall, leave chasing the seconds to those who don’t value leisure. But it does its job rather well and the improved calibre contains components scarcely more than a hair’s breadth that are nonetheless pushed to micro-mechanical limits. The anniversary edition is available in pink gold with a shimmering midnight blue dial or white gold with a black dial and only 235 will be made of each. Why 235? Because the thickness of the movement is 2.35mm.
