Piaget Just Made The World's Thinnest Watch

Like motor shows or gadget expos, watch fairs are industry events where new launches are announced, orders are placed with retailers and media get 'hands on' with product so they may sit in annual judgement on the hits and misses Just occasionally there's a watch so unusual it becomes the talking point of the fair The watch was presented on a rotating plinth behind glass, the better to study it.

A year later, Piaget announced two world records, the thinnest automatic watch, the Altiplano Ultimate Automatic 910P and the thinnest mechanical watch, the aforementioned Altiplano Ultimate Concept Months later Bulgari set two new records in a single watch: the world's thinnest tourbillon watch and the world's thinnest automatic watch It does beg the question: do you want a really, really thin watch? Thin watches are certainly associated with luxury - there's something decadent about a svelte, barely perceptible case on your wrist, alongside the knowledge it houses a fully mechanical functioning watch.

Piaget says that gives you 10,000 permutations, meaning the chances of running into someone with the same Altiplano Ultimate Concept as you are, much like the watch itself, slim. . Source