Piaget revisits the golden age of Polo with the new Piaget Polo 79, a karat gold ode to the jet-setting original.
The new Piaget Polo 79
At 38mm in diameter, the is slightly larger than the 34mm original but retains the Polo’s very chic 1970s vibe. While many of that era’s high-profile luxury sports watches were cased in steel, the Piaget Polo remained an all-precious-metal model.
Like the reigning steel-cased watches of the 1970s, Piaget’s Polo also featured a bracelet that seamlessly linked to the case, with Polo’s brushed and polished gold bracelet links extending across the dial, offering a pleasing uniform pattern around the wrist.
Piaget designed the Polo to mimic a ‘second skin’ that made its bracelet appearto have been sculpted from a single piece of gold.
Piaget eventually offered its gold Polo in a variety of shapes, all with precious metal cases and bracelets.
Initially fit with Piaget’s record-breaking ultra-thin 7P quartz movement, the watchmaker in the early 1980s began to offer Polo with its ultra-thin mechanical caliber 9P, which was fit into a wide range of Polo models for years to come.
The new iteration sees Piaget returning to its most classic Polo design, now updated with Piaget’s latest ultra-thin mechanical caliber, the excellent 1200P1 automatic movement.
And in addition to the slightly larger 38mm case diameter, the new Polo 79 exposes its nicely finished caliber through a modern sapphire caseback.
Price: $73,000.
