ALTIPLANO ULTIMATE CONCEPT

This one-of-a-kind timepiece attests to the Maison’s legitimacy and inventiveness in pushing the limits of creativity and refinement where design and technology become one.

THE CONCEPT

Altiplano Ultimate Concept (AUC) started as an idea, a vision, a dream. Not everyone believed it was possible, but the philosophy at Piaget has always been to always push the limits, to always challenge what exists, and as Valentin Piaget always like to say, “to do what has never been done before.” Piaget’s engineers, watchmakers, and designers continued to search for solutions to make the dream come true and after four years of research and development, on February 7th, 2017 at 7:47 pm, the AUC took its first “beat”.

THE JOURNEY SO FAR

In 1957, the Maison introduced the world’s thinnest mechanical movement, at that time the Calibre 9P that measured a mere 2mm in height. The 9P was the start of a series record breaking ultra-thin movements, including the 12P in 1960, the 1200P and the 1208P in 2010, and the ground-breaking 900P in 2014. Obtaining world records, has never been the driving force at Piaget, it has always been about the quest for uttermost elegance.

THE Altiplano Ultimate Concept STORY

The AUC was first presented in Geneva at the Watches & Wonders fair in 2018 to huge acclaim from the watch community and the world’s press. Only two years later, Piaget made it reliable for everyday wear. In April 2020 the first timepiece left the Piaget workshops for the big wide world, and in November of the same year, the timepiece won the prestigious Aiguille d’Or prize from the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Since then, collectors all over the world have been enjoying this feat of micro-mechanical engineering that remains one of the world’s thinnest timepieces today.