Piaget

Is the caliber 889P an in-house Piaget movement or is it made by somebody else and rebadged?  Got a friend who saw this Dancer and wants to find it if it is made by Piaget.

This message has been edited by MTF on 2012-04-26 08:23:14 This message has been edited by dxboon on 2012-04-30 11:05:56

ralph_george,

 

Thank you for posting.

There are a number of issues about the watch photo posted and questions.

I am not a Piaget employee and thus not privy to products in R&D    but as far as I know, the movement designator 889P has not been used yet  (880P and 881P are chronographs).

The Dancer is a special watch in Piaget line-up and always has an integrated metal bracelet of the same precious material as the case. The watch you showed has ordinary lugs that do not appear in the Dancer.  The whole point of the Dancer is the bracelet as it is flexible and 'dances' around your wrist.

 

I can at least answer one of your questions: ALL Piaget watches use in-house Piaget movements.

In fact, many famous 'Houses' have used Piaget movements in their branded watches, amongst them are: Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Breguet, Ebel, Longines, Omega, Rolex, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron & Constantin, Vulcain, Wittnauer and Zenith.

 

Check out a previous article: Piaget - A Rightful Manufacture part 1:  home.watchprosite.com

 

Regards,

MTF

This message has been edited by MTF on 2012-04-02 21:23:32

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Piaget's workmanship is 1st class, the one in the photo looks quite unrefined. 

 

Baxter

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Guess I make another friend in this forum.

 

Best regards,

 

Baxter

ralph_george,

 

The specific answer to your question is that the movement in THAT unusual Dancer model is finished by Piaget from a ebauche movement.

Don't panic: it is by a sister Richemont Group supplier: Jaeger LeCoultre 889 base.

Piaget always used its own movements since 1943, when the brand was officially registered as a watch maker and not only as a producer of sophisticated movements & parts of movements since 1874 (founded by Georges-Edouard Piaget).

The movements 4P, 5N, 6N, 6P, 7P, 8P, 9N, 9P, 12P and others were used for more than 40 years to produce the Piaget watches. At the end of 1980s to the mid-1990s, Piaget was recovering from the Quartz Crisis and did not have the correct diameter mechnical movement with seconds hand for that Dancer model The standard Piaget 12P automatic movement of the era only had hours and minutes function.

 Since the end of 1990s, Piaget has made a tremendous effort in developing all hand-wound and self-winding movements (more than 30 movements in the last 12 years), faithful to its tradition, which was its strength since 1874.

 

Thanks for finding a historic piece that tells the story of the great Quartz Crisis in Swiss watch industry.

Ironically, Piaget survived as one of the pioneers of Quartz technology in Switzerland with the caliber Beta 21.  Click the link for the History of Piaget:  piaget.watchprosite.com  

 

Regards,

MTF