Piaget’s newest high jewelry collection, Essence of Extralaganza, has been revealed as part of the celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Named for its fusion of ‘extravagance’ and ‘elegance’, the new collection showcases Piaget’s avant-garde taste and creative spirit. The Maison celebrates its 150th anniversary with a virtuoso high jewelry watch collection with particularly unique and elegant styles for the house.  Paying homage to the use of gold and color, Piaget reinvents itself through bold, captivating pieces filled with creativity and design —cuffs and bracelets mixed with necklaces and the radiance of gemstones adorned and magnified by the excellence of perfection.

 The early Piaget style took shape in 1969 when this specialist of ultra-slim movements, established at La Côte-aux- Fées in 1874, launched the now iconic ‘21st Century Collection’, this array of jewelry watches makes an impression with its avant-garde signature. Precious metal takes on a fabric-like texture, mingling with ornamental stones in vibrant colors to awaken organic cuffs and unchained long necklaces —a new way to wear time— rekindling its creative golden years of the 1960s and 1970s.

The Essence of Extraleganza makes gold the subject and gemstones a true style element. It sets apart the women and men who will wear these pieces as free spirits seeking distinction. With a richness rarely achieved in terms of design, in the diversity of gemstones and range of designs, this 150th-anniversary collection unveils its jewels in each of three emblematic Piaget realms: “Extraleganza”, “Piaget Society”, and “When mastery ignites artistry”.

Under the combined influence of the Maison’s virtuosity in craftsmanship and the historical Piaget taste for the couture theme, this realm brings precious textures to gold while offering it a whole new fluidity. Coiled gold, is the common thread of this High Jewellery collection. Articulated and underscored with a coil
of yellow gold, each element is mounted on a different level to accentuate the depth of this creation. The exquisite refinement of this watch, with a dial in green enamel, demonstrates the mastery with which Piaget revisits its heritage. It is no small feat to unearth some forty Colombian baguette-cut emeralds, but here the accomplishment takes the form of an exceptional watch ornamented with 26.11 carats of green stones. This one-of-a-kind piece drips with a mosaic of baguette-cut emeralds and diamonds, which even overflow along the sides, bringing the piece a truly original look.

Piaget brings its full, distinctive sense of flamboyance to this fiery jewellery set in carnelian, spessartite garnets, yellow sapphires, and diamonds. A masterpiece of virtuosity, the necklace asserts a striking orange gradation in trapezoid-cut carnelian set into rose gold. These ornamental stones mingle with diamonds and are mounted on an entirely hand-crafted rose gold chain, illuminated here and there with brilliant-cut diamonds and yellow sapphires. A cushion-cut spessartite garnet of 21.23 carats blazes at the heart of the necklace, reflected in a coordinating ring and pair of earrings.

This transformable cuff bracelet in gold, pink sapphire, and spessartite garnet perfectly condenses the jeweller’s creativity and savoir-faire. In addition to the couture influence of the jewellery’s shape, the Piaget's taste for carefully wrought asymmetry emerges through rose gold Milanese mesh edged with diamonds and topped with an articulated bracelet in a textured gold latticework. Engraved with the famous Palace Decor – which the jeweller designed in the early 1960s –, this precious metal is set with a pink sapphire of 4.42 carats from Madagascar and a spessartite garnet of 6.40 carats.

Inspired by a piece created in 1984, this titanium scarf necklace appears to be cut from a cloud of multicoloured silk. Sapphires, spessartite garnets, tourmalines. The 1,500 stones that compose it are set into bezels of corresponding colours, judiciously arranged according to their chromatic intensity.

This piece has an undeniable presence despite its airiness and is accompanied by a bracelet, a ring, and a pair of earrings. The jeweller has crafted a bi-colour version in the same spirit, set with blue sapphires and colourless diamonds. It took more than two years of research to assemble this exceedingly rare array of round emeralds, showcased on a unique white gold necklace.

The beauty of this piece, set with more than 30 carats of green gems, arises from its interlacing links, which offer a brilliant play on texture and various cuts of gemstones: round and baguette-cut emeralds, brilliant-cut diamond paving, and gold engraved with the Palace Decor. This flawlessly draping piece is completed by a divine ring, set with a Colombian emerald of 5.72 carats mounted atop a round-and-baguette diamond marquetry design. A second ring, two pairs of earrings, and an ultra-slim watch with a flying tourbillon movement further complement the set.

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