Piaget appears to have spent the past few years dreaming up watches that leave us open-mouthed in awe. In 2021 the Polo revealed all with a skeleton movement. 2023 ushered in complications with an ultra-thin perpetual calendar. And who could forget the Altiplano Ultimate Concept unveiled at last year’s Watches and Wonders, which set a record for the world’s thinnest tourbillon? Now, barely a month into 2025 and already Piaget is pushing the envelope again with the release of the Polo Flying Tourbillon Moonphase. All in blue, this elegant Polo is remarkable as much for its slender profile as for its titular complications.
It is an impressive feat to equip a watch with a flying tourbillon and then add astronomical moon phases on top. To do so in an extra-thin construction, with the lightness of titanium, is the cherry on the cake. The Polo Flying Tourbillon Moonphase will be the talking point of any dinner party, from appetiser through to dessert. Echoing Piaget’s favourite sport-chic aesthetic, it is a brilliant show of mechanical wizardry.
Piaget introduced the Polo in 1979 and, through successive variations, the cushion-shaped case and gadroons have become a familiar and instantly recognisable sight. In this latest iteration, the 44mm titanium case plays with polished and satin-brushed surfaces, accented with inserts on the case flanks and the crown in the same shade of blue as the dial. Slip it on the wrist and you’ll be astonished by how light it feels. The joys of titanium!
First to catch the eye is the flying tourbillon, at 12 o’clock, as it performs its seemingly weightless ballet. Directly below, at 6 o’clock, moon phases are caught in their celestial choreography. These two complications appear on a partly openworked dial, with a blue outer portion decorated with the Polo’s signature gadroon horizontal stripes. This delightful blend of colours, textures and materials adds to the magic.
For this magic to happen, Piaget has deployed its expertise and fitted the Polo Flying Tourbillon Moonphase with a high-flying mechanism. The wonders taking place inside are made possible by Calibre 642P; an evolution of the 600P with its thinnest shaped tourbillon ever made which we discovered last year inside the Altiplano Ultimate Concept. This extra-thin manual-winding movement stands just four millimetres high. Four tiny millimetres that house a flying tourbillon, its cage fashioned into a letter P, as well as a moonphase module whose additional 0.5mm height is undetectable by the naked eye. A thrill runs down our spine when we learn that this is an astronomical moon phase, meaning 122 years will pass before a difference of one day accumulates between the display and the actual position of the moon in the night sky.
The Polo Flying Tourbillon Moonphase transports us from terrestrial pleasures to celestial reverie, by way of masterful mechanisms which Piaget has contained inside a beautifully wearable aesthetic. It is a tiny fragment of the cosmos on the wrist, in the lightest of materials.
