Sixtie
Line History
Sixtie is the most recent of the major lines in the Piaget catalogue, presented at Watches and Wonders Geneva in 2025. Unlike many contemporary novelties designed from scratch, the collection is born from archival work: its starting point is the revolutionary "21st Century Collection", presented by Piaget at the Basel fair in 1969 under the creative direction of Jean-Claude Gueit, which had been the first to blur the boundary between watchmaking and fine jewelry thanks to the extreme thinness of the caliber 9P.
Within that heritage, Piaget identifies and recovers a particular case shape — trapezoidal, with bold geometric profiles — which in its original version drew direct inspiration from the famous trapeze dress designed by Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s, a garment that had marked a radical turning point in women's fashion of the time by abandoning the fitted silhouette in favor of freer, more geometric lines. Sixtie brings that same geometry to the wrist, with a gold case with a trapezoidal profile paired with a bracelet made of links, themselves trapezoidal, interwoven into a fluid, articulated structure.
The bezel, finely chased with teardrop "gadroon" motifs — the same decorative vocabulary that also characterizes the Polo — explicitly recalls the more glamorous aesthetic language of Piaget's production in the 1970s and 1980s, while the dial, with its gilt indices, baton hands and Roman numerals, maintains a more classic register, almost in counterpoint to the case's boldness. The result is a collection conceived, in the maison's own words, as "a bold fusion of heritage and innovation", aimed at a female clientele seeking exclusivity and a strong distinctive character without giving up a direct link to the brand's history.
Presented together, at the same 2025 edition of Watches and Wonders, with the Polo 79 (a reissue of the original 1979 Polo) and new interpretations linked to the historic collaboration with Andy Warhol, Sixtie fits into a broader strategy of the maison: looking to its own archive — the 1960s, 1970s and beyond — not for isolated nostalgic exercises, but to feed authentic historical material into the entire renewal of the contemporary catalogue.
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The collection's very name, Sixtie, explicitly evokes the 1960s ("sixties"), asserting from its very label a direct link to the decade in which Piaget began systematically weaving together watchmaking and high fashion: the same alchemy that, a few years later, would also give rise to the Limelight Gala and, in the following decade, to the Polo.