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 ornemental 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.”
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