Possession Decor Palace
One of Piaget’s emblematic visual signatures, bearing witness to the Maison’s gold-crafting mastery, the iconic Decor Palace motif is widening its scope, now elevating new everyday essentials such as bracelets, rings and elegant earrings.
When Georges-Edouard Piaget laid the foundation stone of the family Maison in the Swiss village of La Côte-aux-Fées in 1874, the founder – a pioneer in the art of ultra-thin watchmaking – could not have imagined that years later, Piaget would sit perfectly at the crossroads between watchmaking and jewellery craft. With his motto “Always do better than necessary”, he drove forward technical horological mastery so that Piaget artisans enjoyed an unprecedented creative playground where they could push aesthetic boundaries. Ornamental stone dials brought new brilliance to watches in a range of unique shades, while Piaget goldsmiths adorned gold watch bracelets with brand-new motifs. After giving the Maison its own foundry, Gérald and Valentin Piaget decided to work exclusively with precious metals, pushing the artisans in Piaget’s Ateliers de l’Extraordinaire to explore every possible way of working with the most precious of them all: gold.
“A watch is first and foremost a piece of jewellery,” said Yves Piaget, while he reviewed the hundred different engravings sculpted with infinite patience by the Maison’s ‘Métiers d’Or’ artisans. The most famous engraving is the one originally known as the A6 motif, according to the codes used by artisans at the time. They designed this unique interplay of surfaces in 1961, which would later take on the name Decor Palace. Discovered in the watchmaking archives in the early 2000s by the Maison’s creative director Stéphanie Sivrière, the motif transforms ordinary gold objects into extraordinary pieces, and has since become a signature feature in High Jewellery lines. In 2022, it made its mark on the iconic Jewellery collection created 35 years ago in 1990: Possession.
Couture Allure
First featuring on the curved lines of the Maison’s rose gold Possession rings, Decor Palace increased its sway in 2023, adorning the collection’s three-motif bangle, now a cult piece. A radiant success story, whose allure continues today with the new design of a 4.7 mm white gold ring, paired with a white gold bangle that is adorned with a single large diamond. The bangle completes the range of bracelets, some of which are fully gem-set, with others featuring multiple settings. Designed to lend itself to every whim of the everyday, a new set of unisex bangles and rings in rose and white gold is joining the ranks of the Possession Decor Palace collection. Crafted without diamonds, these minimalist pieces mingle with the collection’s previous creations with surprising ease: through versatile and inspired layering, a new harmony comes to life. All this is completed with a new pair of coveted earrings, 3 cm in diameter, joining the ranks of the other gem-set mini hoop earrings that dress the earlobe with a flash of hypnotic gold.
A precious ally for the everyday, Possession jewellery continues to forge its unique path, as elegant as it is singular. By proudly championing its highly distinctive signature, Possession Decor Palace once again blends both sides of Maison Piaget’s dual heritage, drawing on both watchmaking and jewellery to better reinterpret their legacy.
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