Rooted in horology, Piaget diversified into jewellery in the late 1950s, showing a flair for audacious colourful designs.
The Maison Of Extraleganza highlights its heritage in a high-jewellery trilogy, inspired by the creative and cultural effervescence of the 60s and 70s.
The exploration began in 2024 with the Essence Of Extraleganza, as a part of the brand’s 150th anniversary celebrations. Last year, the Shapes Of Extraleganza focused on another aspect of its design codes.
Matching earrings with links in engraved rose gold and tiger’s eye.
In 2026, the extravagance tempered with elegance is illustrated in the 65-piece Colours Of Extraleganza collection. The design language considers colours as a material with the chromatic power conveyed by gold and gemstones.
Green is naturally represented by Colombian emeralds that pair with white pearls in the white gold Shimmering Wave parure.
Cool tones converge in the Blue Illusions necklace, rings and earrings. The transformable white gold necklace is centred by the blue of an 8.52-carat cushion-cut Madagascan sapphire, the lagoon green of a 3.3-carat Paraíba tourmaline sourced from Mozambique, complemented by iridescent shades of a 13.98-carat Australian black opal.
In addition, blue sapphires and green tourmalines have been custom-cut for the design, interspersed with diamonds and arranged in a geometric pattern to optically create shimmers of light radiating around the neck.
Golden Wave ring set with diamonds.
Other convertible creations include the Flamboyant Links sautoir watch with a tiger’s eye dial, inspired by a design from the futuristic 21st Century Collection launched in 1969.
Detaching the quartz watch results in a choker centred by a 4.13-carat mandarin garnet. The links also feature tiger’s eye, chosen for its vibrant striations, and engraved rose gold.
Piaget harnessed the malleability of gold, from the very first high jewellery collection unveiled in 1959. A decade later, the 21st Century Collection further showcased craftsmanship on openwork cuffs, textured bracelets and chain sautoirs.
Today, the goldsmithing and gemsetting virtuosity is cultivated at Les Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire in Plan-Les-Ouates, on the outskirts of Geneva. The other site dedicated to developing mechanical movements is in La Côte-aux-Fées, where founder Georges-Édouard Piaget set up his workshop in 1874.
His grandson Valentin Piaget materialised a vision for ultra-thin movements and the inaugural haute joaillerie collection in the 1950s.
Gems Pop sautoir watch and sculptural ring.
Since then, gold has been a part of Piaget’s creative palette, as a sunny shade that lights up its jewellery creations.
The Colours Of Extraleganza collection includes the Golden Wave ensemble with diamonds shimmering against rose gold, and the Gold Swirl pieces featuring a mix of gemstones and fluted rose gold.
The sautoir is punctuated by orange fire-opal and indicolite tourmaline cabochons while the dial of the quartz watch is entirely pavé-set with diamonds. The cuff bracelet is designed with a contemporary twist on curves, characteristic of the 1970s, with interlaced rose gold and blue-green baguette-cut tourmalines enhancing volume and texture.
Diamonds mingle with tourmalines on the Gold Swirl cuff bracelet.
Besides the 1970s, Piaget revisits the Memphis art collective that made colour its manifesto in the 80s.
A pink sapphire, spessartites, orange aventurine and thulite join white opal and diamonds in the composition of the transformable Gems Pop sautoir watch with the signature Decor Palace motif adorning the rose gold links and orange aventurine as a striking dial.
The Gems Pop design has also been reinterpreted in cool shades through verdite, lapis lazuli and turquoise on a white gold table clock, showing how the Maison Of Extraleganza loves playing with colours.
Blue Illusions ring and transformable necklace centred by a Paraiba tourmaline, Madagascan sapphire and black opal.