Piaget Revives Its Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater in the Polo Collection

Piaget has brought its minute repeater back to the Polo, pairing a chiming complication with the collection’s modern sport-chic design. The return draws on a longstanding area of the manufacture’s work: Monochrome traces Piaget’s watchmaking reputation to ultra-thin movements and decorative techniques, and notes that its expertise includes major complications such as the minute repeater.

The Polo release has a direct predecessor. Watches by SJX describes it as a revival of Piaget’s once-record-setting repeater and says it shares its movement with the Emperador Coussin. Monochrome likewise notes that the chiming mechanism previously appeared in the Emperador Coussin Automatic Minute Repeater. The new watch therefore carries an established movement into a contemporary Polo case, rather than introducing the complication to the brand for the first time.

That continuity sits within a longer manufacturing history. Monochrome dates the Maison’s founding by Georges-Édouard Piaget in La Côte-aux-Fées to 1874^[1][1] and describes ultra-thin mechanical calibres as a defining speciality. Its account connects the Polo repeater to that expertise through a familiar mechanism, rather than presenting it as a new movement developed for this release.

The case is broad and notably flat, a profile SJX attributes in part to the movement’s layered arrangement. The escapement, micro-rotor and repeater hammers sit on one plane, with the racks and centripetal governor above. Monochrome describes a white-gold case with a rhodium finish and a slide at the side to activate the repeater. Its proportions are a visible part of the design: SJX says the sizing may sit outside the current preference for smaller watches, while also describing the wide, flat shape as elegant.

The openworked dial joins the mechanism to Piaget’s decorative craft. Monochrome describes a white-gold dial with hand guilloché, blue accents and a sapphire ring; an aperture reveals parts of the movement, including the inertia wheel that regulates the chime. SJX calls the partially openworked treatment a departure from the fully transparent Emperador dial, balancing a view of the mechanism with a surface for the eye to rest on.

The movement’s decoration is visible as well as its architecture. Monochrome describes a self-winding calibre equipped with a platinum micro-rotor, hand-bevelled bridges, a guilloché mainplate and mirror-polished repeater hammers. It reports that the movement is conceived, developed, finished and assembled at Piaget’s La Côte-aux-Fées manufacture. That account locates the finishing in the same manufacturing setting named on the dial’s sapphire ring. The aperture frames the inertia wheel, the regulator dedicated to the repeater, tying a visible movement detail to the chiming complication.

Monochrome also reports acoustic research behind the hours-and-minutes chime. It describes a High Jewellery interpretation with blue sapphires and diamonds around a fully openworked dial. The standard version retains more dial surface, while the jewellery version displays more of its mechanism.

The product presentation extends the blue dial treatment to an embossed blue calfskin strap, with an additional alligator strap supplied, according to Monochrome.

The price is available on request, according to Monochrome. Its report describes a numbered edition and a very small planned production run; SJX also characterises production as extremely limited. Those accounts establish the product’s restricted availability, but they do not provide transaction results, resale evidence or a disclosed current retail price. The documented distinction from its predecessor is the case and dial presentation around an established chiming mechanism.