A number of months after formally being renamed the Andy Warhol watch by way of a partnership between Swiss luxurious watchmaker and jeweller, Piaget and The Andy Warhol Basis for the Visible Arts, the Nineteen Seventies iconic design steps out for Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025 in new playful and vibrant animations.

Launched in 1972 because the 15102, then renamed the Black Tie watch in 2014, with the then innovating Beta 21 motion at its beating coronary heart, this boldly-scaled design masterpiece was probably the most beloved of all seven Piaget watches within the assortment of Andy Warhol – cultural icon and key member of the aspirational Piaget Society.

Now formally often known as the Andy Warhol watch, this creation stands in recognition of the real and long-lasting friendship Yves Piaget and Warhol loved since they met in america, between New York, chez Regine’s or the glitzy Washington galas. With its beneficiant 45mm case, and its voluptuous, sweeping gold gadroons curving across the bezel, the design, immediately joined the pantheon of nice collectible icons.

Piaget’s Artwork of Color

The last word expression of Piaget’s prowess with color, and solely the second Excessive Jewelry iteration of the Andy Warhol watch, a brand new model in opal and blue sapphires takes all of the codes of the unique 1972 design and renders them in dazzling, couture hues.

Following the inclusion of a wholly singular piece in 2023’s Excessive Jewelry assortment Metaphoria, that includes a dial of petrified wooden, hour markers in custom-cut emeralds, and a triple row of baguette-cut emeralds encircling the case, the brand new Excessive Jewelry Andy Warhol watch switches earthy browns and greens to kaleidoscopic greens and blues.

The terribly lustrous opal dial, alive with sparks of blue and inexperienced, is a surprise in itself – a sweep of deeply radiant gemstone in a measurement massive sufficient to make up the 45mm case is uncommon certainly. Opal –Yves Piaget’s favorite stone – has lengthy been seen as an emblem of purity and reality, and on this case, it’s only made extra vibrant by the peerlessly calibrated blue of the triple-row baguette-cut sapphire gadroons that encircle it; a group of stones in a uniformly scintillating blue that was a real problem for Piaget’s gemmologists to gather.

Yves Piaget used to  say: “The world to me is like an opal, made of various tastes and hues.” Sporting elegantly tapered dauphine palms, this new Excessive Jewelry creation combines Piaget’s explicit mastery of color and its affinity with treasured gems to imbue it with all of the Maison’s know-how, from watchmaker to jeweller.

Tiger’s Eye

Piaget’s love of decorative stones has seen watches and jewelry hewn from your entire array of treasured, vibrant minerals over time, from gold-flecked, velvety blue lapis lazuli and radically striped pink and crimson jasper, to verdant inexperienced jade and fairly boulder opal.

Becoming a member of a brand new watch vary that features 2024’s blue meteorite Andy Warhol Clou de Paris watch is a brand new imaginative and prescient with a dial hewn from tiger’s eye, a silky, richly amber decorative stone with deep orange and brown tones, notably beloved in designs from the Nineteen Sixties on. Expertly lower to reinforce the stone’s delicate golden needles, the dial is a mix of pure graphic stripes and opalescent luster.

This new addition to Piaget’s decorative stone dial vary joins the blue meteorite Clou de Paris model, in addition to examples with inexperienced and white meteorite dials showcased at Watches and Wonders. The deep inexperienced meteorite face matches with white gold gadroon case, whereas the graphically flecked white meteorite face is fantastically juxtaposed with gentle, rose gold.

Powered by the in-house 501P1 Manufacture self-winding motion, the brand new Andy Warhol tiger’s eye watch is an apparent member of a lineup which already features a made-to-order providing. Ten totally different decorative stone dials, 5 in another way colored leather-based straps, a alternative of hand kinds (baton or dauphine) and in white or rose gold – countless iterations for collectors to play with to create their very own distinctive Piaget Andy Warhol id and make it their signal of distinction.

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