Kaleidoscope Cuts, Twisted Timepieces, and Opal Obsessions: Piaget Gets Playful
What do you get when you cross audacious jewellery, a 70s flashback, and a Maison that is not afraid to break boundaries? You get Piaget’s latest high jewellery collection: Shapes of Extraleganza—a wild, unapologetic celebration of colour, geometry, and fearless craft.
Following up last year’s Essence of Extraleganza, this is the second drop in a trilogy that dives head-first into Piaget’s rebellious soul. Think: the free-spirited glamour of the 60s and 70s, reimagined for 2025 with sculptural precision and a hint of wink-wink subversion.
High Jewellery Meets High Art (With a Touch of Madness)
If you know Piaget, you know they don’t play it safe Shapes of Extraleganza digs deep into the Maison’s ties with the art world—back when Yves Piaget was casually hanging out with Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and other legends of the avant-garde. It’s that same riotous creative energy that pulses through every piece: shapeshifting forms, radical textures, and colours so bold they practically scream.
The collection plays like a psychedelic mixtape of form and feeling. Over 50 pieces celebrate geometry gone rogue—think zigzags, waves, and slinky circles tangled together in unexpected harmony. There’s something incredibly modern (and deliciously retro) about the whole thing, like if Pop Art and 70s disco had a very expensive baby.
Let’s Talk About the Sets
Each suite in the collection reads like a different chapter of Piaget’s multi-decade art obsession.
The Kaleidoscope Lights suite, for example, is a striped fever dream—crafted from ornamental stones like rhodochrosite, verdite, and sugilite. These vividly coloured slices are stacked into mesmerising mosaics.
Then there’s Flowing Curves, where rare black opals shimmer within textured, hand-hammered white gold. It’s organic, it’s dramatic, and it’s deeply personal—a tribute to Yves Piaget himself, who once said he saw “the whole world” in opals.
The Wave Illusion suite flirts with the cheerful chaos of the 80s Memphis movement, all bold spinels and sugar-rush joy. Meanwhile, Curved Artistry offers a cheeky nod to Piaget’s ring-watch legacy. This time, the dial hides under a translucent aquamarine cabochon, because of course it does.
Feeling glam? You’ll fall for the hypnotic emeralds of Gleaming Shapes and Arty Pop, or the Joyful Twirls cuff watches that sparkle with mood-swing sapphires, spessartite garnets, and pink sapphires. These aren’t just bracelets—they’re wearable kinetic sculptures. Oh, and surprise: there’s also a cutting-edge ultra-thin self-winding movement tucked inside. Because Piaget doesn’t do “either-or.” They do both.
But Wait, There’s a Table Clock
The pièce de résistance of Shapes of Extraleganza isn’t even wearable—it’s Endless Motion, a mobile sculpture–meets–table clock created in collaboration with French artist Alex Palenski. Think of it as a high-design fever dream: suspended branches of ornamental stone dance and shimmer, echoing the electric blues and greens of lightning-charged black opals.
It’s art in motion, quite literally. And it’s a cheeky, genre-defying statement that screams Piaget: elegant, irreverent, impossible to ignore.
Why It Works
The whole collection is proof that Piaget knows exactly who they are—and they're not afraid to push it further. They've always been the ones blending high jewellery with high-concept art, balancing maximalist expression with masterful restraint. Here, you see the Maison’s roots in its La Côte-aux-Fées workshop and its trailblazing 1969 Basel debut come full circle—only louder, brighter, and more extra than ever.
From its ultra-thin watchmaking innovations in the Altiplano era to its bold design hits like the Piaget Polo and Limelight Gala, Piaget has never stopped evolving. Shapes of Extraleganza is the Maison’s latest manifesto: art is not static, luxury doesn’t have to whisper, and elegance—when done right—is best served loud.
