Thin enough to forget
By Priya Nair, Singapore ยท
Piaget has been making ultra-thin movements since the late 1950s, and the Altiplano is where that obsession lives now. At 6.4 mm thick in a 38 mm gold case, it is one of the slimmest dress watches you can buy without going to the extremes, and it slides under a double cuff like it was designed by a tailor.
The movement is the 430P, hand-wound, 43 hours, which means winding most days. The silver dial is almost blank, just slim baton markers and two hands, closed caseback, leather strap, 30 m.
Price is 20,000 to 22,000 dollars. That puts it against a Tank Louis Cartier at considerably less, and a Patek Calatrava at considerably more. Against it: Piaget resale is soft, the crown is tiny for daily winding, and the dial is so minimal that some will find it dull. I'd buy it for a man who has everything and still wants to wear something unobtrusive with black tie.