It was in La Côte-aux-Fées, a little village tucked into the Jura mountains of Switzerland, that Georges Edouard Piaget in 1874 laid down the foundations of what would become, a few decades later, an inimitable signature in the universe of luxury and precision. He set up his first workshop on his family’s farm and devoted himself to crafting highly precise mechanical clock movements for prestigious watch-making companies. As he received more orders, this small-scale production developed into a family business. The name of Piaget began to echo well beyond the peaks and valleys of the Swiss Jura. As orders poured in from discerning clients who had learned to recognize in Piaget’s clock movements a rarely equaled mastery of craft, the workshop took on new dimensions. Timothée Piaget, Georges Edouard’s son, took over the family business in 1911, with the same passion and pursuit of absolute quality as his father, and with equal success.