Building on a colourful heritage, Piaget unveils the final chapter of the High Jewellery trilogy celebrating its art of Extraleganza. Featuring 65 extraordinary creations, Colours of Extraleganza invites you on a sensory journey where colour becomes a material; a form; a language. Gold sets the tone here, blending flashes of light from diamonds and sapphires; the radiant glow of emeralds and rubies; opals with their sky-like hues; and the iridescent shimmer of tiger’s eye and mother-of-pearl. A virtuoso collection of joyful, whimsical sets that burst with life.
Following Essence of Extraleganza – launched in 2024 to mark the Maison’s 150th anniversary – and 2025’s Shapes of Extraleganza, the new Colours of Extraleganza collection brings this flamboyant High Jewellery trilogy inspired by the creative and cultural effervescence of the 1960s and ‘70s to a spectacular conclusion.
When Piaget invented the legendary ultra-thin calibre 9P in 1957, it opened the doors to a world of colour. The thinness of the movement made room for gem-set dials, which were introduced in a wide spectrum of colours. “Colour plays an integral role in Piaget’s history and heritage”, explains Stéphanie Sivrière, the Maison’s artistic director. “Now, with Colours of Extraleganza, we’ve explored a new aspect of colour that resonates perfectly with Piaget’s aesthetic codes: extravagance and elegance.” Crafted at the Maison’s Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire, these 65 creations show just how adept Piaget has become at blending complementary or contrasting hues and expressing their subtle nuances.
A unique approach to colour
Rather than using sparse touches of colour, Piaget explores its every facet, experimenting with its various textures so that it becomes a material in its own right. “What I’ve focussed on in this collection, more than the gems themselves, is their chromatic power – namely their presence, the energy they exude, and the unique qualities they express when combined with others. Like these black opals with green highlights paired with ultramarine sapphires, and this sapphire and mother-of-pearl duo that bring out each other’s dominant pink hues”, observes Stéphanie Sivrière.
In the same vein, gold has been so vital to Piaget’s creative palette for the past half century that is treated as a colour. The Maison combines the colouration of gemstones with that of gold, thereby enriching its aesthetic vocabulary with dynamic, vibrant stylistic flourishes. Colour becomes a playground for the emotions it inspires, punctuating the movement of Swinging Sautoirs that tell the time and sculpting the light on rings and earrings of truly contemporary majesty. And with that, colour becomes a signature.
The colours of Piaget
Introducing the Blue Illusions necklace, a highlight of the collection. This unique creation – which took the Piaget workshops nearly 900 hours to craft – juxtaposes the blue of an 8.52-carat cushion-cut Madagascan sapphire with the lagoon green of a 3.30-carat Paraíba tourmaline, both set ablaze by the blue and green iridescence of an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind 13.98 carat black opal. This trio of gemstones is elevated by a multitude of sapphires and baguette-cut tourmalines that have been custom-cut on the piece, interspersed with diamonds and arranged in a geometric pattern to create an optical effect that sends shimmers of light all around the neck. A unique piece accompanied by two rings, one presenting a silky Sri Lankan sapphire weighing nearly 5 carats, and two pairs of earrings.
Another iconic model is the famous sautoir timepiece first launched by Piaget in 1969 as part of its legendary 21st Century Collection. Today, it graces this Flamboyant Links collection, where rose gold is artfully encircled with tiger’s eye sparkles. This is a first for the Maison, which has not combined gold links with ornamental stone since the 1970s. Adorned with a 4.13 carat mandarin garnet, this convertible piece – which can also be worn as a choker or a wristwatch – showcases Piaget’s exquisite workmanship on the links, which are crafted from engraved gold and tiger’s eye, carefully chosen for the vibrancy of its striations. In the same spirit, the studio has created a voluptuous ring presenting a dazzling 6.42-carat cushion-cut mandarin garnet at its centre, as well as drop earrings set with a perfect pairing of two more garnets, each weighing 3.04 carats.
For the four-piece Gold Swirl collection, Piaget was inspired by the curves characteristic of the 1970s, revisiting them with a contemporary twist. The spectacular cuff bracelet showcases the Maison’s goldsmithing prowess with its interlaced rose gold and blue-green baguette-cut tourmalines that bring volume and texture to this characterful piece.
A hallmark of watchmaking, rose gold fluting adorns a High Jewellery set for the first time. It extends across a necklace punctuated with orange fire-opal cabochons and indicolite tourmalines, concealing at its centre a dial entirely pavé-set with diamonds.
With the Gems Pop set, Piaget references the Memphis art collective that made colour its manifesto in the 1980s. Comprising five pieces, this vibrant ensemble contrasts the orange of mandarin garnets and aventurine with the pink of sapphires, thulite and gold. Tempered by areas of white opal, the sautoir is composed of gold links adorned with the Decor Palace motif and concludes with a remarkable detachable pendant watch whose asymmetrical shape reveals an orange aventurine dial crowned with an 8.30-carat mandarin garnet and a 3.54-carat pink sapphire.
Piaget’s passion for gemstones is also exquisitely expressed in a sculptural ring where slices of immaculate opal, sugar-pink thulite and mandarin aventurine frame a flamboyant 8.53-carat garnet. These incandescent chromatic sensations continue to spark the flame of Piaget’s uniquely distinctive High Jewellery.
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