All In on Ultra-Thin: The Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept Comes to Market
In 2018 at SIHH (now Watches & Wonders), Piaget made watchmaking history with the unveiling of the Altiplano Ultimate Concept? then and now the thinnest mechanical watch in the world ever produced. At the time, the watch remained as its name implies: a concept with an experimental design. Today, the Swiss watch-and-jewelry maison brings the concept to life and again takes center stage by unveiling the new, market-ready Altiplano Ultimate Concept ? the first time the ultra-thin watch will be be made available for purchase, and one that easily takes the crown as the thinnest watch commercially available.
The original Altiplano Ultimate Concept design took four years of dedicated research and development to create, and the updated market-ready version took an additional two years of development. In total, this watch took six years of dedicated work on the part of brand to create, not to mention Piaget?s long history in ultra-thin watchmaking, which began in 1957 with the hand-wound Calibre 9P, at the time one of the thinnest movements available at only 2 mm, the same thickness as today?s Altiplano Ultimate Concept watch.
As for the new watch?s design, we find a style similar to the model first revealed in 2018. The 2-mm-thin, round case features short lugs and an integrated, seamless ?crown,? all produced from a cobalt alloy that offers a greater durability than gold but a more luxurious feel than steel. The crown itself is quite interesting, taking the form of a...
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