Maison 33 of 100 · Fine Jewelry
Piaget
The reading
The goldsmith-watchmaker. Altiplano owns ultra-thin; Possession owns the spinning-diamond ring that people actually wear to lunch. Richemont treats it as a high-jewellery maison that happens to make the thinnest watches in the group.
The house
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Founded
- 1874
- Atelier
- Fine Jewelry
- Ownership
- Richemont
- Signature
- Possession / Altiplano
- Register note
- Ultra-thin & gold This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
Its stablemates here are Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Buccellati, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, A. Lange & Söhne, and two more — nine Richemont houses in all. Fine Jewelry holds fifteen houses here, and this is the 8th of them. It is one of sixteen maisons filed here from Switzerland, the third-largest national group in the register. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 30th of a hundred. Fine Jewelry in this register runs from 1780 to 1980, with a median founding year of 1884; Piaget is ten years older than that median.