Piaget Calendar Moonphase Porcelain Limited Edition

Complicated watches like this one — especially those crafted from precious metals and built with genuine technical depth — are still overlooked in today's hype-driven landscape. But seasoned collectors know exactly what's happening here. The craftsmanship, the movement finishing, the proportions — all of it sits miles above its current market value. When tastes swing back toward classical elegance (and they always do), pieces like this will be the ones people regret not picking up.

This Piaget Annual Calendar with Moonphase,  numbered 144/250, dates back to the mid-nineties and belongs to a fascinating moment in the brand's history, when Piaget, already the master of ultra-thin watches, leaned confidently into high complications. It's powered by the 17-jewel Cal. 27P, a manual-wind movement adjusted to temperature and five positions — a quiet demonstration of Piaget's obsession with precision.

The luminous white porcelain dial has a depth and glow that lacquer simply can't mimic. Applied gilt baton markers, an Arabic numeral at 12, and a black outer calendar track maintain clarity and proportion. Day and month apertures sit just below noon, while a moon phase paired with running seconds rests in a sub-dial at six. A gilt arrow-tipped central calendar hand ties the display together with a poetic economy.

The yellow gold case features stepped lugs, a combination of brushed and polished finishing, and a caseback secured by four screws, with quick-set correctors at 2, 4, and 8 o'clock for effortless adjustment. It's fitted to a Piaget black crocodile strap with a signed 18k gold buckle — refined, understated, complete.

This is quiet sophistication. True horology. Don't overlook it. The connoisseurs won't.

Piaget is perhaps the foremost player in ultra-thin watches and watch movements in the world. Established in 1874 in Geneva and currently under the Richemont Group umbrella, the maison began producing wristwatch movements in 1911, manufacturing the Calibre 9P, its first ultra-thin, hand-wound mechanical movement, in 1957.

In 1960, Piaget released the Calibre 12P, the thinnest automatic movement in the world at the time, at just 2.3mm. It fitted many of its miniature movements into innovative timepieces hidden in coins, brooches, and cufflinks, becoming known equally for its jewelry.

The Piaget Altiplano Ultimate, released as a concept in 2018, became a full production model in 2020. At just 2mm thick, it took the record for thinnest watch on Earth. Today, Piaget continues to innovate in the realm of ultra-thin watchmaking, creating ultra-thin tourbillons, retrograde movements, and more.

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