Piaget’s latest capsule collection of Extremely Piaget jewellery made its debut at last month’s Independent Spirit Awards in the US.

Evoking the glamour of Hollywood, the dazzling new pieces were worn by Piaget brand ambassador Jessica Chastain at the event held in Santa Monica, California, on February 27.

The American actress was the honorary Chair of the Spirits while also taking part in the ceremony as an award presenter.

As premier sponsor of the Independent Spirit Awards for a ninth consecutive year, Piaget watches and jewellery lit the red carpet with gold and brilliant diamonds, audacious shapes and an explosion of bold colours. 

Among the awards, Anomalisa won the Best Film, with Tom McCarthy named the Best Director, Abraham Attar the Best Actor (Beasts of No Nation) and Brie Larson Best Actress (Room).

Revisiting the maison’s legacy and a passion for audacious creativity, Extremely Piaget brings together the most intricate gold craftsmanship and masterful gem-setting to create flamboyant pieces in a style that is distinctly “Piaget”. 

Creating the illusion of the most lavish fabrics, gold threads have been delicately woven or elaborately knitted to create cuffs, a signature Piaget creation. 

Silk-like mesh and intricate lacework designs are embroidered with marquise diamonds and other colourful hard stones. In a radiant combination of precious gold and dazzling stones, cuffs, rings, watches and pendants put the “Piaget look” in the spotlight.

The new capsule collection revisits Piaget’s legacy and passion for surprising creativity with radiance and charisma. 

Mirroring the textures of the most exquisite fabrics, the Extremely Piaget handcrafted gold cuffs are imbued with an instantly recognisable identity that incorporates three legacy design cues that are unmistakeably “Piaget”. 

The marquise diamond, a cut characteristic of Piaget’s jewellery work takes on an oval shape, giving optimal sparkle to some of the designs in the collection, while other colourful stones provide the flamboyant creations with their captivating allure.

The ‘palace’ décor, with its shimmering mesh-like texture, gives the outside surface of the bracelet an iridescent effect. With this technique, watchmaking and jewellery are seamlessly fused into a luminous combination of precious gold and dazzling stones, as a flourish of brilliant diamonds elegantly cascades down the pink or white gold adding radiance to the cuff.

While Piaget jewellers may know how to give gold extraordinary luminescence, with the ‘torsade’ décor they have also mastered the art of weaving gold into an elaborately knitted strip that intimately wraps around the wrist. Twisted pink gold threads come together to form a textured bangle and assorted ring, set with contrasting turquoise and bluish-green chrysocolla in a colour combination that is “so” Piaget. 

Light and feminine, the intricate open gold motif of the ‘dentelle’ bangle and ring create the illusion of delicate lace, set with brilliant-cut diamonds embroidered into the gold to emphasise the highly crafted gold work. 

Playfully capturing the light, a white gold sautoir necklace displays the delicate ‘dentelle’ pendant from which a profusion of diamonds and turquoises flow.  

The capsule collection has been designed to be continued, evolving over time with new pieces imagined and crafted by jewellers, goldsmiths and gem-setters who lend their know-how to the creation of radiant pieces that are in every way ‘Extremely Piaget’, the Swiss house says.