Piaget Watches, Known for Bejeweled Ladies Watches
Piaget and Co were founded in 1874 per George Piaget, a timepiece and watch maker turned by farmer in the village of the The-Dimension-with-Fees, which started to assemble watches to earn additional money during the thin winters.
Not much is known about the first years of the company, except the fact that its sons ensured thereafter the businesses and guided the company of their father by two world wars and large Depression.
Prior with the World War II, watches of Piaget were launched on the market by other companies, which engraved their own names on the dials.
After World War II, however, the Gerald grandsons and Valentine Piaget of the founder succeeded and embarked on an ambitious level to give to the company of their grandfather a stronger identity in the market.
A new collection of wristwatches was premiered and caused completely a feeling.
The rest, as they say, is markets of history.
Foreign such as the open United States during the Fifties and this led to the establishment of the branches in New York, Geneva and in Germany.
It helped that the company presented a certain number of innovating movements for this period, such as nine ultra-thin movement of the line the "9P.”
This made it possible Piaget to create a popular series of elegant and ultra-thin wristwatches for men and women.
Another commercially successful movement was the "12P, ” which was the movement of the automatic watch thinnest of the world until 1967.
During the Sixties, the company bought to the top of several cases and the manufacturers of bracelet.
This took account of the strict quality control.
During years to come, the concentration on the market of Piaget changed.
The watches themselves took the aspect of the fine jewels.
The dials were available in a certain number of models and the matters employed became increasingly exotic.
More tellingly of all, there were more jewelers than the timepiece and watchmakers employed by House.
Nevertheless, although Piaget did not launch far from embracing the new quartz technology, it continued to manufacture the mechanical wristwatches.
Because of other companies, such as Rolex and Omega, started to dominate the "sports observe" the sector, Piaget makes a significant decision of sale and decided to specialize in the dress and the jewels watches.
Thanks with successful models such as the popular watch of sports shirt, which comprises a bracelet full of gold to call some extremely, Piaget emerged from the Seventies as a one of the companies of the watch most successful of the world.
In fact, the watch of sports shirt was a so desirable symbol of statute which it generated a certain number of watches of counterfeit.
Piaget has successfully brought the counterfeiters in Hong Kong and Italy at the court, putting a term at the problem.
Today, Piaget is known for the sound bejeweled watches of women and watches full of gold dress.
Although complicated watches continue to be assembled in limited quantity, the majority of the watches of Piaget more or less jewel- are directed.
To the spirit, it should come as a surprise that in only year, Piaget buys several thousand carats of the stones of highest quality, as well as five tons from gold.
It should also mention that each component in a watch of Piaget, except the movement, is made of full gold -- even the being closed dials! In, in spite of the obvious intrinsic value of the watches of Piaget, they are also the surprisingly beautiful watches -- refined, rare, meticulously hand-finished employing the materials finest and single in the design.
Perhaps president de Piaget put better when it noted: "You do not read the time of Piaget, you admire it."
Piaget and Co were founded in 1874 per George Piaget, a timepiece and watch maker turned by farmer in the village of the The-Dimension-with-Fees, which started to assemble watches to earn additional money during the thin winters. 