Our Automatic
Mechanical Movements

In its permanent quest for excellence, the Manufacture explored many of the possibilities offered by automatic movements. Often devised around an off-center micro-rotor, they were fashioned in gold, steel or platinum and encased in finely decorated housings, with skeleton and even gem-set variations. Part of the history of luxury watches belongs to automatic movements, which initially appeared in their simplest guise. Numerous complications were then added, from the simplest to the most complex: simple or perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde second, double time zones, flyback chronograph – even the tourbillon and minute repeater. All added further weight to Piaget’s impressive canon within the realm of automatic watches.

Piaget’s virtuosity in creating exceptional mechanisms also extends to imbuing each of them with a unique dimension. The Manufacture excels in the art of fashioning skeleton automatic movements, showcasing the atelier’s mastery of traditional engraving skills. Piaget has gone even further, by marrying its horological expertise with métiers d’art to gem-set a automatic flying tourbillon movement with baguette diamonds on both faces of each working part in the ultra-thin mechanism – an absolute first in Haute Horlogerie!