This new timepiece in the Piaget Emperador collection is making its mark on this iconic line in the Black Tie collection thanks to a powerful design and a decidedly avant-garde character.
If thin is in, Piaget has gone absolutely anorexic (in a good way) for SIHH 2011. Setting new haute horlogerie records, Piaget’s latest luxury watch for men, the Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic sets new records as the world’s thinnest tourbillon.
Weighing in at 10.44 mm, thin self-winding tourbillons like Piaget’s Emperador Coussin are extremely complicated because the oscillating weight that charges the watch mainspring when you swing your arms adds extra thickness to the movement. Piaget’s Tourbillon Ultra-Thin breaks new grounds but being almost as thin as hand wound thin watches and here’s a SIHH preview over at Augustman.com
How an ultra-thin automatic tourbillon is possible
By combining two of Piaget’s heritage calibres, the Piaget Calibre 600p, the world’s thinnest hand-wound tourbillon and the Calibre 1208P, the world’s thinnest self-winding movement, you get the world’s thinnest automatic tourbillon- the Piaget Calibre 1270P. This technical and aesthetic masterpiece stands only 5.55mm thick and is a testament to the horological ingenuity (and three year effort) of Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie Piaget. A true men’s luxury watch.
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- The cushion-shaped 1270P movement is the epitome of authentic fine watchmaking, housed within an identically shaped case. One of the most emblematic complications, the self-winding tourbillon, complete with its gold micro-rotor – thereby finds a new expression in this Calibre 1270P.
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- The new Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic Ultra-Thin watch features the slimmest profile on the market, with a case measuring just 10.4 mm thick.
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- In presenting its new self-winding tourbillon Calibre 1270P, the culmination of a three-year development process, the Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie Piaget is taking an additional step in this field of excellence represented by ultra-thin mechanical movements.
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- Drawing upon the qualities of both Piaget Calibre 600P – the world’s thinnest hand-wound tourbillon movement – and Piaget Calibre 1208P – the world’s thinnest self-winding movement equipped with a micro-rotor – Calibre 1270P, Piaget’s first ultra-thin self-winding tourbillon movement measuring just 5.55 mm thick
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- This new timepiece in the Piaget Emperador collection is making its mark on this iconic line in the Black Tie collection thanks to a powerful design and a decidedly avant-garde character.
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- This new timepiece in the Piaget Emperador collection is making its mark on this iconic line in the Black Tie collection thanks to a powerful design and a decidedly avant-garde character.
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- The solid case-back, engraved with the Piaget coat-of-arms and the Calibre 1270P reference, features two openings: one for the power-reserve indication, and the other to provide a view of the tourbillon carriage.
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