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Piaget Altiplano Full Pave Dial Watch

For a truly elegant watch you can always rely on the Piaget Altiplano. It looks good on both men and women, and comes in a variety of styles - each in a thin, round case. For 2011 the Altiplano gets a full pave (diamond covered) dial with matching diamond covered bezel. The diamonds are brilliant-cut and applied in a concentric circle pattern. Depending on the model, the pieces will have between 574-735 diamonds on them.

What are the two versions? Piaget offers the Altiplano Pave Dial watch in a 34mm wide or 38mm wide 18k gold case. The 34mm wide version is clearly a women's model, while the 38mm wide version is for either men or women. There are so many diamonds on the dial that the sheer level of the sparkle is almost distracting! Piaget even had to apply their logo on the bottom of the sapphire crystal as there was no room on the bejeweled face. Still, the dials are legible thanks to the white gold baton style hour markers and dauphine hour and minute hand. The design offers a pleasing mix of jewelry and minimalism.

There are more diamonds on the buckle of the white or black alligator strap. As is the case with all Altiplano watches, this one is very thin. The Piaget made calber 430P manually wound movement is just 2.1mm thick, and the case is not that much thicker. Showy, but still elegant, the Piaget Altiplano Pave Dial watch is a great item for special occasions or when you are try to be less than subtle on a first date.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Piaget Altiplano Automatic Ultra-Thin Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

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Piaget continues to offer classically minimalist thin watches in its Altiplano range of timepieces. New for this year is a record setting homage to a prior Piaget watch from half a century ago. The new Altiplano Automatic Ultra-Thin watch comes equipped with the brand new Piaget Caliber 1208P automatic. The in-house made movement is an automatic with a mico-rotor (in 22k gold) and is the world's thinnest automatic mechanical movement at just 2.35mm thick.

The watch that contains the movement is very svelte as well. The Altiplano Automatic Ultra-Thin comes in a 43mm wide 18k white or pink gold case that is just 5.25mm thick. Incredibly thin for a full-features automatic movement. The dial is simple and easy to read in the spirit of Piaget's history - but now with an eccentric subsidiary seconds dial. Still, even though it is modeled after a classic from 1960, the watch hands feel too short. The larger sized Piaget logo feels quite modern though. The watch will be released soon at SIHH 2010.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Piaget Doubles Your Fun

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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This isn't the first watch with two mechanical movements that I have seen but it is one of the least gimmicky, just two simply beautiful watches, one on top of another. Piaget has released a new version of their classic Altiplano, that has two separate watches with two mechanical movements to tell two different timezones. It uses two Piaget caliber 450P movements with 18 jewels, beating at 21,600 bph. At 38mm, the 18K white gold case is smaller than a lot of the wrist dominators I have seen lately. It sells for $27,000.

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