A few months ago, Piaget presented the Polo Skeleton Arty, an especially colourful rendition of the Polo Skeleton, at the Only Watch charity auction. Now, it has gone in the opposite direction, embracing a jet-black direction with it first-ever ceramic watch.
Ceramic, when used in watchmaking, typically has rugged, industrial and contemporary connotations. It has taken a while, but Piaget’s foundations are built on elegance and stylishness. This might explain why its first ceramic watch has taken a while to surface, despite the materials burgeoning popularity, and why it took three years to develop.
Dressy, sporty and very black, the Polo Skeleton Ceramic is a very modern take on the sports-chic watch. The self-winding calibre 1200S1, an in-house creation debuting in 2021, has been finished in dark grey. As a counterpoint to the monochromatism, the hands and markers are filled with an unusual dark blue Super-LumiNova. The micro-rotor, visible from the dial side of the watch, also has a luminous Piaget logo for a bit of extra low-light drama.
The case consists of an inner titanium container that holds the movement but is mostly not visible beneath the black ceramic externals that include the bezel and crown. As a result of this new construction, the Polo Skeleton Ceramic is one millimetre thicker than preexisting steel or gold watches that hold the same movement—but at only 7.5mm thick, it is still easily considered an ultra-thin watch and lives up to Piaget’s long reputation for slim timepieces. It also measures 42mm in diameter and has a 50m water resistance rating. Equipped with a quick-change strap system, the Polo Skeleton Ceramic is supplied with two rubber straps—one black and the other in blue.
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