Piaget's Craftsmanship - Creation of a movement | Piaget 2013

Piaget is one of the few watchmakers to design, develop and produce its watch movements in-house, and has been doing so since 1874. The master of the ultra-thin movement, Piaget never ceases to establish new records thanks to the thinness of its luxury watches and movements. Each component has its thickness reduced to the strict minimum, leaving some of them barely as wide as a strand of human hair. Today, over half the movements designed and produced at the Manufacture Piaget are ultra-thin. Its finishes are produced in the purest watchmaking tradition, and comply with particularly strict specifications. Specialist craftsmen carry out over fourteen different decorative operations, including circular-graining, bevelling, circular Côtes de Genève, polishing and engraving the Piaget coat-of-arms. Piaget has pushed back the limits of technical achievement in order to satisfy its aesthetic requirements. In so doing it has succeeded in creating the thinnest tourbillon movement in the world. Not only is it the thinnest tourbillon, but it is a flying tourbillon as well, more visually appealing but so much more complex to design and produce. Piaget has a workshop that is exclusively dedicated to Haute Horlogerie, where its most prestigious watch complications are assembled. Here its artisans bring to life the famous tourbillons, perpetual calendars, minute repeaters and other complications in a relentless search for the ultra-thin. The entire assembly of these masterpieces