I love it when watch companies seek to break records. While the actual functional implications are often zero, it is nice to seem them competing and working toward superlatives. Piaget has often been obsessed with size. No, not large, but small. For them an ideal watch is broad and thin. Like a wafer on your wrist. In 1960 they released the Caliber 12P, an automatic movement that was the thinnest of its time. Now, 50 years after this release Piaget offers up a new and even thinner movement. The 1208P is their latest flagship automatic movement at just 2.35mm which – a world record. The movement features the hour, minutes, and a subsidiary seconds dial, along with a 40 hour power reserve. Assisting it to be so small is the use of an 22k gold micro rotor that does not take up as much space. The beautiful new movement will debut in the Piaget Altiplano Automatic Ultra-Thin watch.
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