A year ago, for Watches and Wonders 2025, Piaget deep dived into the Maison’s rich archives with a brand new jewellery watch collection with a reimagined shape and allure. Plunging into the late 60’s, this case is a generous, yet femininely proportioned trapezoid, evocative of the era’s nickname “the Swinging Sixties”. A new design watch, simply named Sixtie for its origins, and for the simplicity of its function – to mark sixty seconds, sixty times an hour. Today, Sixtie anchors itself in new territory and straps in for the launch of its two new versions, deep into the blue.
SHAPE SHIFTER
The unveiling of Piaget’s 21st Century collection in Basel in 1969 was a watershed moment for both watches and jewellery, a moment when the distinction between a watch and a piece of jewellery bent like a mirage, shimmering in perpetual movement, the two disciplines no longer disparate. Under the eye of designer Jean-Claude Gueit, Piaget timepieces throughout the 60s and 70s became jewellery pieces without limits, their faces wrought in ornamental stones of dazzling colour, their shapes exaggerated as ovals, rounds, and cushion, and that now iconic trapeze. Their homes? Long, naval-skimming sautoirs, forearm spanning cuffs, golden cages or engraved bracelets for daily life, softly resting on the wrist. The era became defined by the play of shapes, colours, and textures, the gold intricately tooled to evoke the sparkle of light on water, the texture of wood, the graphic shapes of architectural building blocks. The expression of telling the time was no longer stagnant, but static and ever-changing. The rigour of a timepiece met the fluidity of a jewel – at once constant in its role, yet ethereal in its form. Time telling in the hands of Piaget had thrown off all constraints, and danced into a new, avant garde world of time-telling jewels.
ADORNED TIMES
The brand new Sixtie, launched in 2025, celebrated its origins : a jewel to grace the wrist, no longer defined purely by its role as a timepiece but its position in the pantheon of Piaget’s iconic jewellery watches as conceived in the 1960s – a timepiece as fluid as a jewel, its lines unmistakeably feminine yet with a wink to its masculine counterpart also adorned with gadroons, the more symmetrical cushion-shaped Andy Warhol watch.
Forgoing the precious metal bracelet of the original, these two new versions see the Sixtie anchor itself in the most maritime of hues, on deep blue alligator straps calibrated for all times. Chicly unembellished, the gently gleaming, dark blue strap accentuates he minutely detailed gadroons that swoop around the bezel, each one individually etched into soft, satiny pink gold, the perfect foil to the strap’s depth of colour. Linked by the new ardillon buckle, also trapeze shaped and decorated with the same sweeping gadroons, the blue straps encase two variations of dial; the first, a silvered solar satin brushed dial, sprinkled with golden roman numeral markers. A bright light against a deeper, darker hue. The second, in keeping with Piaget’s prowess with ornamental stone dials, unveils a face in blue quartz. Exceptionally hard to maximise longevity, the material is also distinct in its markings – a rich, marbled blue veined with darker streaks, each one entirely unique and perfectly in tune with the blue alligator strap. A new blue dial to echo the vibrant turquoise dial which was unveiled in 2025, marking again the fusion between the best of both worlds: dressing the jewellery watch in a magnetic ornamental stone dial. The result? Chic, distinctive, and effortless.
