PIAGET POLO 18K ONYX WITH DIAMONDS

The 1970s and ’80s were an era of extravagance and elegance, a time when art, music, and high society fused into a heady cultural cocktail. It was the age of disco and punk rock, of conceptual and performance art, of Warhol’s Factory and Studio 54, and of a new kind of glamour. In the orbit of these “beautiful people” was Yves Piaget, the fourth-generation scion of the Maison, a virtuoso of both horology and high society. A polo aficionado and a fixture at glittering soirées, he counted Gina Lollobrigida, Miles Davis, and Cary Grant among his circle. It was this world of polo tournaments in Palm Beach, midnight parties in Paris, the blurred line between sport and spectacle hat inspired Yves Piaget to create something unprecedented. In 1979, he unveiled the Piaget Polo, the Maison’s first watch to bear a name rather than just a reference number. A full-gold, integrated bracelet watch that blurred the distinction between jewelry and horology. It was immediately embraced by icons of the