1969 marked a turning point for Piaget and the wider watchmaking world: staying true to the family mindset “Do what has never been done before”, Piaget unveiled the 21st Century Collection at the Basel Fair.

By redrawing the boundaries between watchmaking and the art of jewellery, Piaget reinvented the jewellery watch. As Yves Piaget said, from now on “A Piaget watch is first and foremost a piece of jewellery”. It took on the shape of a cuff or a Swinging Sautoir with bold designs. A new way to wear time was born. Among these avant-garde creations, the trapeze shape, so unexpected, with a rule-breaking extravagance to its free-form interpretation, fast became a Piaget stylistic signature.

The signature gadroons on the bezel refer to the Piaget 14101, a Beta 21 quartz watch, the first timepiece to feature the chiselled lines. These delicate lines playing with light tell of Piaget’s mastery of gold.

The sophisticated gold bracelet , with its trapezoidal links echoing the trapezoidal shape of the case, fits like a second skin on the wrist. Its suppleness and radiance are a further expression of the mastery of Piaget artisans in the shaping of gold.