What did Salvador Dalí, Jackie Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor have in frequent?
Beside a penchant for a glamorous jet-set life, all three typically wore Piaget watches, the epitome of stylish within the Sixties and ’70s.
In 1967, Dalí minted the Dalí d’Or gold cash used as ornamental components for watches that the artist designed in collaboration with Piaget. Ms. Kennedy’s gold and jade watch is now in Piaget’s non-public museum. And after Ms. Taylor’s loss of life in 2011, Christie’s auctioned a few of her Piaget items, together with a gold and green hard stone wristwatch with a band of extensive openwork gold hoops, which bought for $80,500.
Subsequent 12 months, to coincide with Piaget’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the Paris-based public sale home Artcurial has scheduled “Piaget 150 ans” (“Piaget 150 Years”), an public sale in Monaco providing 50 classic and trendy watches and items of bijou. The date of the sale has not been introduced.
Piaget won’t provide any tons however has mentioned it’ll authenticate items. And Artcurial now’s in search of consignments, inviting house owners to have free value determinations of things at its workplaces in Monaco, Milan and Zurich.
“Our sale shall be a celebration of the fashion of Piaget with items from the interval of 1960 to 2000,” mentioned Marie Sanna-Legrand, director of Artcurial’s jewellery and watches division. “We at the moment are sourcing essentially the most fascinating fashions like secret watches, cuff bracelets and twisted gold-cord necklaces. Briefly, all of the designs which have made the celebrity of Piaget.”
The home expects, she mentioned, to incorporate some males’s watches from the identical period, “comprised of yellow gold and set with diamonds, since they’re bought immediately as girls’s watches.”
Piaget was based by Georges-Édouard Piaget in 1874 within the Swiss village of La Côte-aux-Fées. By the ’60s and ’70s, it was often known as an professional in ultrathin mechanical watch actions, and its goldsmith abilities — mirrored in lengthy twisted gold-chain necklaces, referred to as sautoirs in French, and gold cuff bracelets set with colorful pieces of semiprecious stones like jade, coral, tiger’s-eye and lapis lazuli — sealed its distinctive design identification.
“Up to now decade, costs for classic sautoirs and cuff bracelets have gone up by not less than 50 %,” Ms. Sanna-Legrand mentioned. “Immediately, they vary from 20,000 euros to 80,000 euros, relying on the supplies used.” (That’s about $21,500 to $85,900.)
In July 2022, an Artcurial public sale that included 13 Piaget watch and jewellery items had two tons promote on the high of that vary: a 1970s gold and jade set comprising a pair of earrings, a hoop, a twisted chain sautoir and a cuff watch, bought as one lot for €111,888, and a 1968 watch, set with diamonds and lapis lazuli, that bought for €98,280.
Piaget has continued to produce pieces impressed by its archives, as evidenced by the six laborious stone dial fashions, which included turquoise and malachite, offered on the Watches and Wonders Geneva commerce present this previous spring.
