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Piaget's ultra-thin and openworked version of its Polo sports watch becomes bolder and sportier.
Polo is a highly important name for Piaget. It dates back to 1979 when the brand launched its luxurious solid gold watch with an integrated bracelet and signature gadroons all around. Although it was recently recreated, today’s audiences associate the name Piaget Polo with something far more contemporary and sleeker. Presented in 2016, the Polo collection is the brand’s vision of a luxury sports watch with time-and-date and chronograph options. One of the most appealing options in this collection is the Polo Skeleton, adding thinness and mechanical pedigree to its streamlined design. And this year, it’s back in a bolder, more masculine and sportier model, the Piaget Polo Skeleton Ceramic.
Over the decades, the Polo collection has evolved from a slightly extravagant and opulent watch – typical 1980s luxury – to a more discreet and casual model. When it was introduced in 2016, the contemporary Piaget Polo S collection opened the door to stainless steel cases and bracelets, a sportier look (somehow more Emperador than Polo), and new manufacture movements. Since its return, the collection has drastically expanded, with complications and features in tune with everyday wear – chronograph, perpetual calendar, slimmer and smaller designs, quick-release bracelets, and high-end jewellery editions.
As one of the few brands to master the art of ultra-thin watchmaking and openworked movements, it was no surprise to see the Piaget Polo released in an ultra-thin, skeletonized version, as we’ve seen in this in-depth video. First presented in 2021, the Piaget Polo Skeleton added a rather impressive combination of boldness and mechanical pedigree, with a sportier look and yet a much thinner case. This dynamic and more expressive edition of the Piaget Polo was first available in steel with blue (the brand’s signature colour) or grey dial, later followed by a gold edition. Now is the time for Ceramic.
Most of the design cues from previous editions have been retained in this new Piaget Polo Skeleton Ceramic. The case, with its cushion shape and raised bezel, still measures 42mm in diameter and, despite the use of ceramic, combines classic finishings such as a horizontally brushed bezel, brushed flanks and several polished bevels all around. However, the use of black ceramic required Piaget to reconsider the watch’s existing construction to respect the robustness and water-resistance found in its steel and gold models.
As such, the Polo Skeleton Ceramic is built around a central titanium container, which has a black DLC coating to blend in with the rest of the watch. This container serves as a protection for the movement. Black ceramic is used for the external elements of the case, meaning the two lateral modules, the bezel and the crown. This light and dark material brings a new personality to this watch, making it sportier and bolder. However, due to the different construction of the case, the latter is now 7.5mm thick instead of 6.5mm for the steel versions. It’s still fairly thin, though, and remains practically unnoticeable on the wrist. Water-resistance is still rated at 50m.
Complementing the dark and bold look of the case, the dial and movement of the Piaget Polo Skeleton Ceramic have been treated in jet black all around, including the openworked bridges and the inner flange that frames the watch. The latter is home to raised applied hour markers. A touch of dynamism and a typical Piaget element, the hands and indexes are filled with blue Super-LumiNova, a colour that’s also used for the micro-rotor, visible through the movement… The Piaget logo is printed in luminous material, too.
Mechanically, no changes have been made compared to the steel edition. Inside is the calibre 1200S1, the skeletonised version of the 1200P, one of the thinnest automatic movements available. Calibre 1200P, with its height of 2.35mm, is used inside Altiplano Ultra-Thin models, while the 1200S, with a height of 2.4mm, has been used in Altiplano Skeleton models in the past. Wound by a micro-rotor to retain thinness, it runs at 21,600 vibrations/hour and stores about 44 hours of power reserve. Visible from both sides, the blackened bridges and mainplate are decorated with a satin-brushed sunburst motif and feature polished bevels.
Equipped with the brand’s SingleTouch interchangeable strap system, the Piaget Polo Skeleton Ceramic is delivered with two rubber straps – reinforcing its sporty vocation – either in black or blue. These are closed by a steel and titanium folding strap. Released as part of the permanent collection, the Polo Skeleton Ceramic is priced at CHF 40,100. For more details, please visit www.piaget.com.
