It is day one of Watches and Wonders, and if you know, you know. The group chats are going. The wishlists are being revised in real time. Watch lovers everywhere – whether they are in Geneva or glued to their screens in cities from Dubai to London – are doing what they do every April: collectively losing their watch-loving minds over the most exquisite objects in the world. Piaget has always known how to amplify that feeling. Where others speak in complications and calibres, the Maison speaks in colour, stones and movement – and this year, it has a great deal to say about all three.
The thread running through the entire 2026 collection is ornamental stone, a love affair that stretches back to 1963, when Piaget first dared to dress watch dials in lapis lazuli, turquoise, malachite and tiger’s eye. That verve became a signature. This year, it is reignited – across sautoirs, cuff watches, collector’s editions and a feat of high watchmaking that rewrites what is technically possible.
The centrepiece is the Swinging Pebbles, a new generation of Piaget’s iconic Swinging Sautoirs, first introduced as part of the landmark 21st Century Collection in 1969. The philosophy behind them – articulated by Yves Piaget himself, who said “a watch is first and foremost a piece of jewellery” – lives on in three new pendant watches, each carved from a single slice of ornamental stone: golden tiger’s eye, grass-green verdite, or pietersite. Each is delicately hollowed out to house a manufacture movement, sealed into a smooth, asymmetrical pebble form, and hung from a hand-made twisted gold chain. They swing when you walk. They catch the light when you move. They are watches that behave like jewellery, and jewellery that behave like watches.
The High Jewellery Sixtie revisits the iconic 1970s cuff watch through opal – one of Yves Piaget’s favourite stones – set within its softly contoured trapezoid form and hand-engraved with Piaget’s famous Décor Palace.
The Sixtie on strap marks a new chapter for one of Piaget’s most beloved silhouettes. The iconic trapezoid form was first introduced as a tribute to the Swinging Sixties and now trades its precious metal bracelet for a deep-blue alligator strap, while individually etched pink gold gadroons frame a choice of two dials: a silvered solar satin face with golden Roman numerals, or a richly marbled blue quartz dial whose unique veined markings make every piece its own.
The Andy Warhol editions, meanwhile, are a study in Piaget’s relationship with colour and collectibility. One piece plays with the Maison’s signature blues across quartz dials; another offers a warm, reddish-brown bull’s eye dial with shimmering chatoyancy, set in a studded Clou de Paris case, first launched in white gold in 2024.
The Polo family has one of the most satisfying stories of the 2026 collection. The Polo 79 – named for the year it original launched, gadroons and all – arrives for the first time with an ornamental stone dial, a deep blue sodalite that ties it directly into the Maison’s wider stone narrative this year. Alongside it, the sport-chic Polo Date gets the gadroon treatment in both 36mm and 42mm, with interchangeable rubber straps in beige and khaki green. Versatile, wearable, and – with the Polo Signature Date expanding across steel and rose gold in new blue dial references – undeniably Piaget.
Perhaps most staggering of all the House’s Watches and Wonders releases is the Altiplano Ultimate Concept Tourbillon. Already the world’s thinnest tourbillon at 2mm, the new iteration integrates ornamental stone into that record-breaking profile. It sounds straightforward until you understand what it actually demands: stones mounted on components integral to the movement, cleaned using a 0.15mm needle – the finest in Piaget’s arsenal – at every stage of an extraordinarily exacting assembly. The result, in honey-hued tiger’s eye and pink gold, is as beautiful as it is mind-boggling. Learn more
