Piaget Emperador Coussin Regulator Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Mar 26th 2009 at 12:02PM

This is probably the first regulator watch from Piaget that I have seen, and it is the Emperador Coussin Regulator. For those who don't know, a "regulator" is a watch that uses the main dial for the minutes, and a smaller dial for the hours. Piaget even took the traditional regulator watch theme a step further and added a 30 second retrograde seconds counter. The counter located at the top of the face will count 30 seconds and then the indicator hand will snap back to zero position and start over. The retrograde seconds counter isn't about functionality, but is merely a fun complication to observe. To do this, Piaget uses its in-house made Calibre 835P hand-wound mechanical movement that is just 3.92mm thick (very thin). Power reserve is 65 hours.

The Emperador Coussin Regulator features the Emperador Coussin's 42.5mm wide 18k rose or white gold case with a midnight blue or charcoal gray dial. Hands and indexes on the face are gold as well. Although this is not a limited edition watch, each piece will have its individual serial number and year of manufacture engraved on the back of the case. Piaget did a nice job of taking the concept of a regulator watch and "making it their own." I don't know if this cushion shaped Emperador case is what I would have personally chose to house the complication ( I would have likely opted for their rectangular Emperador, or a Polo case), but the overall effect is nice. The watch should be available now.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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