Roses have performed a huge role within the existence of Yves Piaget and also have become characteristic blooms for that famous Maison. This season, Piaget introduces the humanities & Excellence collection featuring three limited-edition watches carried out with artisanal touches. All celebrate the Yves Piaget rose, a significant supply of inspiration for Piaget jewellery watching collections.
To understand more about how these pieces are created is sitting lower with French master embroiderer, Sylvie Deschamps, and Piaget marketing manager Sandrine Deperrois. Take a look at our video interview.
ARTS & EXCELLENCE COLLECTION
This special Art & Excellence collection features the representational Piaget Altiplano highlighting micro-pointillism embroidery, Grand Feu enamel or hard stone marquetry. Each translates the Yves Piaget rose via a specialized talent. Additionally to those artistic flourishes, each watch is finished with 70-eight brilliant-cut diamonds set across the bezel from the white gold or platinum situation, which houses ultra-thin manual-wind Piaget manufacture movement 430P.
MICRO-POINTILLISM
Honored using the official title of Ma?tre d’Art through the French Minister of Culture, Sylvie Deschamps uses her talents to embroider a stylish Yves Piaget rose around the dial from the eight pieces within this limited collection. The miniature rose is first attracted on fine whitened silk to produce a pattern for that work of needle and thread. Working in the outdoors in, Deschamps utilizes rare silver ‘filet’ thread across the edges from the rose flower petals and a variety of five silk threads, different colored from fuchsia to pale pink. She then utilizes a technique call micro-pointillism to produce a large number of knotted stitches to get the preferred color. Each 38mm watch occupies to forty hrs of meticulous handwork to accomplish.
GRAND FEU ENAMEL
The initial step starts with engraving the Yves Piaget rose motif around the dial then adding a sunray guilloché finish around it. This requires steady and skilled hands to complete, and also the resulting engraving adds great depth and complexity towards the piece. The enameling starts within the raw form, a mixture of glass and metallic oxide that’s ground having a mortar and pestle to some very fine powder. When the powder is completely washed, the glaze is used towards the dial in layers, with respect to the preferred color.
An important step along the way is heating each layer of glaze within an oven at 800°C. The glaze is very sensitive along with a difference of a couple of seconds can change the preferred outcome – or crack the enamel. It’s the artisan’s secret recipe of timing and adding that produces gorgeous dials. The ultimate step is sprucing up the dial to create the piece to existence.
HARD STONE MARQUETRY
This craft needs a skilled builder. For Piaget, that individual is artisan Hervé Obligi, whose French workshop was honored using the exclusive “Enterprise du Patrimoine Vivant” (Living Heritage Company) for his excellence this traditional skill. Oblige produced a sensational dial of hard stone marquetry using Imperial Mexican jasper for any special edition of eight pieces. Using his experience and experience, he delicately cut and polished the jasper in rated shades from crimson to pale pink and fit them together just like a jigsaw puzzle to produce his interpretation from the Yves Piaget rose.
Symbolic Of LOVE
“For me, roses talk about childhood and that i well remember my first thrill of affection for that wild flowers referred to as sweet briar or Eglantine roses, growing in complete freedom in an altitude of just one,100 meters,” Yves Piaget recalls in the memoirs. Throughout his existence, he was fascinated through the flower, to the stage of making the Worldwide Competition for brand new Roses in Geneva, the champion which typically gets to be a golden rose. In 1982, the Meilland rose-dog breeders devoted their most breathtaking rose to Mr. Piaget. A marvelous calyx comprised of 80 pale “rose pink” scalloped flower petals, it had been to get the jeweler’s muse and also the signature of Piaget jewellery.
In the sixties let’s start, his valued rose motif overflowing the Piaget watch and jewellery collections using its gemstone-set gold flower petals. His taste for roses was further confirmed in 1976 as he grew to become part of the jury for that Geneva Worldwide Competition of recent Roses, and presented the champion having a gold rose crafted within the Piaget training courses. The love of these astonishing flowers was compensated in 1982 once the champion from the competition, produced through the famous rose breeder Meilland, was christened the “Yves Piaget rose.”