BY JOVAN K
Piaget did not just drop a couple of fresh Polo references in 2026; it reminds everyone what the line is supposed to feel like, from the gadroons to the metals, the diamonds, the stone dials, and that sleek old school swagger.
Piaget Polo 79 White Gold Sodalite
The one that grabs you first is the new Polo 79, now done in 18k white gold with a blue sodalite dial, and it feels like a cooler, sharper take on the yellow gold revival without losing any of the attitude that made the design such a Piaget thing in the first place. The case comes in at 38mm x 7.45mm, with a rhodium brushed white gold finish, polished bevels, polished gadroons, sapphire crystals front and back, and 50 meters of water resistance, so even though this is really about elegance and design, it is still built like a proper watch and not just some fragile exercise in nostalgia.
Then there is the dial, which is where the watch really starts talking. Piaget uses blue sodalite here, not some flat lacquer trying to fake a mood, and that means you get a mineral surface with depth, variation, and that slightly unruly character that makes stone dials fun when they are done right. Running across it are 18k white gold gadroons, which are important because they tie the dial back into the case and bracelet instead of making it feel like a separate layer dropped into the middle. Add the 18k white gold dauphine hands and the whole thing lands exactly where it should, dressy but not stiff, polished but still a little playful.
Visible through the case back’s sapphire display is the in-house calibre 1200P1, an ultra-thin automatic movement with a 22k micro-rotor which comes fitted with 25 jewels, beating at 21,600 vph, and offering 44 hours of power reserve. Piaget has finished it the way you want Piaget to finish something like this, with a circular-grained plate, bevelled bridges with circular Côtes de Genève, sunburst brushed wheels, and blued screws.
The integrated bracelet also comes in rhodium finish 18k white gold, brushed with polished gadroons to keep that flowing architecture intact, and it closes with a triple-blade folding clasp that keeps the whole thing clean on the wrist. Price is CHF84,500, which places it firmly in high-luxury territory, but that is also the point. This is not trying to compete with standard sports watches; it is Piaget expressing its own codes in white gold and stone.
Piaget Polo Signature Date “Gadroons”
The bigger collection play, though, is the new Piaget Polo Signature Date, because this is where Piaget really drives home the point that the return of gadroons is not some little visual tweak; it is the brand putting the Polo back on its own footing. That matters. For a while, the modern Polo could drift a bit too close to the familiar luxury sports watch script, still attractive, still refined, but not always carrying the same immediate identity as the original. Here, the gadroons come back across the dial itself, four polished ridges traversing the surface, and suddenly the case, bracelet, and dial are speaking the same language again.
Piaget splits the Signature Date into 36mm and 42mm versions, and they are not just scaled copies of each other. The 36mm x 8.8mm comes in either stainless steel or 18k pink gold with brushed and polished finishes, has sapphire crystals front and back, and is water resistant to 50 meters. The bezel can be plain or set with diamonds, which already tells you Piaget is happy to let this watch move between sporty and jewel-like without getting awkward about it. The larger model, meanwhile, is 42mm x 9.4mm and comes in stainless steel or pink gold as well, again with brushed and polished finishing, sapphire crystal on both sides, optional diamond-set bezels, and a more everyday-friendly 100 meters of water resistance. That extra size and water resistance make it feel a bit more relaxed and versatile, while the smaller one leans slightly dressier, especially once you get into the gem set territory.
The dial options are silver or Piaget blue, and both are crossed by those four polished gadroons that really make the whole relaunch click. On the 36mm models, Piaget uses skeletonised hour and minute hands, which gives the watch a lighter and slightly more elegant feel, while the 42mm versions get hour and minute hands coated with Super LumiNova for a sportier edge and better legibility. Both sizes feature a counterweight with an openworked P, applied indices that are either filled with Super LumiNova or set with diamonds, and a date window at 6 o’clock that keeps the symmetry tidy. That mix is where the collection gets interesting, because the same basic watch can read very differently depending on whether you go silver or blue, plain bezel or diamond bezel, lume-filled markers or diamond-set indices, steel or pink gold. Some versions feel crisp and daily, others move much further into Piaget’s jewelry territory, and the brand seems completely at ease with that spread.
Under the dial, the two sizes part ways. The 36mm models are powered by the manufacture calibre 500P1, an automatic movement, beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour and delivering 40 hours of power reserve, with hours, minutes, seconds, hacking, and date. The 42mm references use the manufacture calibre 1110P, also automatic, also at 28,800 vibrations per hour, but with a slightly longer 50-hour power reserve, again with hours, minutes, seconds with hacking, and date.
So even though the collection is aesthetically unified, Piaget has not phoned in the mechanics. The price range runs from CHF11,700 all the way to CHF49,200, which is a pretty wide spread but makes sense once you factor in steel, pink gold, diamond bezels, and diamond set indices.
What I like here is that Piaget did not treat 2026 like a box-ticking exercise. The Polo 79 gives you the full fantasy in white gold and sodalite, slim and slick and a little decadent, while the Signature Date builds out a proper family in steel, pink gold, silver, blue, plain bezel, diamond bezel, luminous markers, and diamond set indices, all tied together by the one thing that always made the Polo feel like the Polo in the first place. That is the bit that matters most.
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