From JustLuxe content partner iW Magazine
Piaget revisits the golden age of Polo with the new Piaget Polo 79, a karat gold ode to the jet-setting original.
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At 38mm in diameter, the new Polo 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.
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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.
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Piaget designed the Polo to mimic a ‘second skin’ that made its bracelet appearto have been sculpted from a single piece of gold.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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