Piaget reintroduces gilded glamour to its Limelight Gala watches
More than 50 years after the original's debut, Swiss watch house Piaget has unveiled two more iterations of its iconic Limelight Gala watch.
Though initially released in 1973, the watch retrospectively christened Limelight Gala, a name bestowed to honour its extraordinary history. From its inception, this chronograph was the moment, gracing wrists at receptions, parties, balls, dinners and galas, displaying time with panache and flamboyant flair. This grand introduction to high society was expertly orchestrated by Yves Piaget, the maison's fourth-generation scion and founder of the Piaget Society, an international community of sophisticated clients including the likes of Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy.
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Over the years, Piaget has consistently remodelled the Limelight Gala, with each iteration proving as sophisticated and luxurious as the last, and the two new designs for 2026 are certainly no exception. With an undeniable air of seductive glamour, this celebrated timepiece now arrives in two new gold-engraved versions.
The first features a vibrant orange enamel dial over gold, meticulously engraved to replicate snake-skin. This is generously encircled by diamonds that spill over, curving and flowing into the rich sunset shades of spessartite garnets, on a bracelet of snake-skin-etched gold.
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Photo: Paiget
The other design showcases a sumptuous Decor Palace bracelet, a technique only achievable through exceptional goldsmithing skills, as each groove is incised into the fold by hand, making each piece unique. Such fluid and rhythmic lines send light skimming across the gold, marrying with the cascade of diamonds that encircle the watch face and trickle down the bracelet in a transitional motion from white to cognac.
Through these new designs, Piaget continues the aesthetic functionality of the Limelight Gala - time as jewellery that can take the wearer from a cocktail party to a formal banquet, with more accessibility and wearability than previous, highly theatrical timepieces. It is a piece that transcends time and trend, imbued with understated glamour.
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Photo: Piaget