PRESS KIT
SHAPES OF
EXTRALEGANZA
Piaget’s unveils a new playful
High Jewellery collection and
reinvents the Maison’s connections
to art and design.
Shapes of Extraleganza, delves deep into the daring, shapeshifting, playful
elegance that is the essence of the Maison’s unmistakable style. Following last
year’s Essence of Extraleganza, this is the second in a trilogy of collections
exploring Piaget’s creative roots in the 1960s and 70s, maximising and
modernising concepts, pushing boundaries of both design and craftsmanship,
challenging preconceptions, reinvigorating the Maison’s original audacity and
bold ingenuity.
Shapes of Extraleganza tells of Piaget’s powerful connection to art and artists,
paying homage to the Maison’s celebrated collaborations with Salvador Dali,
Arman or famous collectors like Andy Warhol. Collaborations that grew,
naturally, out of Yves Piaget’s personal friendships with artists, and the
intellectual and artistic luminaries of the day who made up his inner circle,
known as the Piaget Society. These collaborations, fuelled by Yves Piaget’s vision,
together with the inventiveness of the Piaget creative studio, the genius of Jean-
Claude Gueit, celebrated watch designer, and the skills of Piaget artisans, elevated
the jewel to an entirely new status within the world of art and design. Piaget’s
milestone 21st Century Collection of jewellery watches, launched in Basel in 1969,
captured the heady ferment of social upheaval, art, design, fashion, architecture,
the new freedom of expression of the age. Today, Shapes of Extraleganza pulsates
with the same effervescence and exhilaration, revelling in the avant-garde,
presenting jewels of striking modernity and cultural relevance, ready to take their
place in contemporary art and design.
UNEXPECTED
ENCOUNTERS
The 2025 High Jewellery collection in the Extraleganza series deep dives into the
Piaget’s heritage. Experimental, unexpected yet with warm echoes of familiarity,
Shapes of Extraleganza is a study in form, colour, texture, light and volume,
a supremely sophisticated evolution of Piaget’s high-energy play of shapes.
Shapes within shapes, squares, triangles, zig zags, waves, circles, interlocked,
overlaid, jostling joyfully in sculptural and conceptual, highly stylised
compositions that perfectly harmonise fluidity and precision. Through 51
creations, Piaget plays with graphic lines, geometric angles, sliver-like triangles,
as well as organic free form shapes and sensual curves, while referencing
Pop Art, Op Art, the swirling psychedelic patterns of 70s fashion or the
generously rounded, plump contours of 60s design icons.
Reflecting the high-low cultural mix that characterised 1970s society,
High Jewellery meets Pop Culture.
Each suite of jewels expresses a different artistic
expression, each melting time into a perfect
intermingling of past and present, history and
modernity, and as always spiced with Piaget’s
seductive, surprising glimpse into the future.
Most set includes a watch, showcasing Piaget’s
dual mastery, the perfect balance between High
Jewellery and Haute Horlogerie as Piaget fuses
exceptional watchmaking, in the form of thrilling
complications, with adventurous fashion-forward
artistry.
In the same spirit of subversive playfulness, Shapes of Extraleganza mixes
and mingles signature Piaget techniques and materials. The ornamental stones
first seen on watch dials of the ‘60s are now conjured into the vibrantly hued
Op Art-inspired linear mosaics of the Kaleidoscope Lights suite, comprising
a dramatic striped collar, long drop banded earrings, ring and watch with a sun-
ray-like dial. In a virtuoso performance of lapidary art, a variety of ornamental or
minerals stones, including unusual specimens, such as rhodochrosite, sugilite and
verdite, have been meticulously carved into curved slices of differing thicknesses
and then miraculously fitted in precise striped alignment. The ‘back-to-nature’
movement of the 1970s is channelled through the organic, free-form design
of the Flowing Curves suite, the spectacular collection of rare black opals
embedded in richly textured hand-hammered white gold, presenting a new
goldsmithing technique, from the House of Gold, to add to the famous Decor
Palace. The set pays homage to Yves Piaget’s passion for opals, in which, he said,
he could see the whole world, “made of different tastes and sensibilities.”
Exquisite gemstones, expertly selected not only for their beauty and rarity
but for their artistic contribution to each theme, play a vital role in exuberant
compositions of colour, light and shape. Rare and ravishing red and orangy-
pink spinels take centre stage in the Wave Illusion suite, inspired by the pop
colours, naïve geometric lines and sheer childlike joy of the early 1980s Memphis
movement. Radiant sun-yellow sapphires sit at the heart of the candy-coloured
Curved Artistry suite, which features a secret ring watch, a Piaget signature from
the 1940s. The diamond-paved dial is hidden beneath a translucent cabochon
aquamarine. Hypnotic Colombian emeralds ooze glamour and seduction
in the Gleaming Shapes and Arty Pop suites. The dazzling swirls that ripple right
across the supple bracelets and dials of the two Joyful Twirls cuff watches are
alive with the colour and light of artfully pavé-set gems; two shades of moody blue
sapphires on one, and flaming spessartite garnets and pink sapphires clashing
on the other. The wide bracelets replicate the finesse of silk made possible by
both superlative gem-setting and, in a High Jewellery first, Piaget’s ultra-thin self-
winding movement.
ART IN MOTION
Finally, delivering the shock of the new, the masterpiece of the collection
is Endless Motion - a table clock designed and crafted as a mobile sculpture.
Embodying Piaget’s relationship with art and artists, this dynamic masterwork
is the ultimate celebration of Piaget’s enduring play of shapes, the daring
playfulness that the Maison takes so seriously. For such an innovative,
barrier-breaking idea, Piaget commissioned Alex Palenski, French artist,
friend of the Maison and maker of mobile sculptures. From this extends the
quivering branches of the mobile, each set with an organically shaped ornamental
stone, in hues of blue and green to echo the lightning flashes of the black opal.
Exuding the energy of Piaget’s rebellious spirit, the sense of constant movement
that defines Piaget’s creative force, and choreographing a subtle dance of light and
shadow, Endless Motion represents the pinnacle of Extraleganza.
ABOUT PIAGET
Piaget epitomizes daring creativity a quality that has continued to permeate
through the Maison since its beginnings in 1874. From his frst workshop in
La Cote- aux- Fees, Georges-Edouard Piaget devoted himself to crafting
high-precision movements in a feat that formed the very foundations of our
pioneering name. In the late 1950s, Piaget unveiled the ultra-thin movements
that would later become the Maison’s trademark and the cornerstone of the
Altiplano collection. As a true innovator of the watch and jewellery world,
Piaget strongly believed in creativity and artistic values. It is within the walls of
our Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire where master artisans continue to harness rare
skills that have been preserved and perfected from generation to generation,
transforming gold, stones and precious gems into dazzling works of art. Through
its pursuit of masterful craftsmanship, the Maison has created emblems of
daring excellence channeled into its collections including Alt plano, Piaget Polo,
Limelight Gala, Possession, Piaget Sunlight, Piaget Rose and Extremely Piaget.
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