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THE GOLDEN CHILD RETURNS

It has been 150 years since Georges-Édouard Piaget founded his own workshop in La Côteaux-Fées in 1874 and just over 80 years since the Piaget brand became a registered trademark in 1943. Piaget has always created elegant, fine timepieces with a particular flair for precise, ultra thin movements. During the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, it set numerous watch records for ultra-thin designs with both quartz and mechanical movements.

Each generation of the Piaget family has brought something new to the brand as they took

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