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Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Ultra-Thin Watch

Marina Milojević | 12.25.10 | 01:58 AM

<b>The SALON INTERNATIONAL DE LA HAUTE HORLOGERIE 2011</b> will gather watchmakers and designers to share their passion for watchmaking one-to-one. Nineteen watch brands will present their new products at the 2011 Show, and among them Piaget, a Swiss luxury watchmakers and jewellers, founded in 1874 by Georges Piaget in the village of La Côte-aux-Fées.

The Piaget will officially present their Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic Ultra Thin, the thinnest automatic watch in the world. Piaget already holds a prestige title as a manufacturer of the the world’s thinnest manual-winding tourbillon (calibre 600P) and the world’s thinnest self-winding movement (calibre 1208P) with micro-rotor.

This new watch utilizes brand new in-house movemet calibre 1270P, produced as a result of three years long research and development work. According to the Piaget, the new movement blends the best features of their previous in-house calibers 128P and 600P. The new movement is only is 5.5mm thick , allowing for the case of this Emperador Coussin model to measure amazing 10.4mm. The movement is composed of 269 components.

Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic Ultra Thin comes in 46.5 mm wide cushion-shaped case, and two varieties, as a 18-carat pink gold model, or white gold model. The watch’s dial is fitted with a transparent laser-engraved glass, allowing the view on a delicate inner mechanism and its guilloched gold micro-rotor, adorned with the Piaget coat-of-arms. The dial also features an off-set hour and minutes display at 5 o’clock with tapered hour markers pointing towards its center.

The solid case back features a pair of cut-outs: one for the tourbillon carriage and the other for the power reserve indicator.

We shall have much more to say about the watch after the salon in Geneva.

The 21st Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie will be opened from January 17th to 21st 2011. This private trade fair will also host an outstanding exhibition of "Treasures from the Beyer Clock and Watch Museum in Zurich."

2011 Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Ultra-Thin automatic watch specification

Movement:

  • Calibre 1270P,
  • automatic,
  • 269 parts,
  • 35 jewels,
  • 21,600 vph,
  • dimensions: 34.9 mm x 34.9 mm,
  • height: 5.55 mm,
  • in-house, Swiss Made

Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds (flying tourbillon,) power reserve indicator

Power reserve: 40 hours

Case material: White gold or Rose gold

Case size: 46.50 mm x 46.50 mm

Case height: 10.40 mm

Dial: Laser-engraved glass

Hands: Gold

Water resistance: 30 meters

Strap: Brown alligator leather strap with an 18-carat gold folding clasp

Crystal: Sapphire

Case back: Solid

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