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Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'
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Piaget

Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye'

9131 26 mm
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Regular price $33,950

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Piaget Emperador 'Tiger's Eye' - (Ref. 9131) Product Details

Overall Condition: Great condition overall. Case and bracelet show faint signs of wear. Dial and handset are in excellent condition.

Few maisons understood the seductive power of ornament quite like Piaget—and few periods captured that confidence better than the early 1970s. This Emperador bracelet watch is a distilled expression of that era: unapologetically glamorous, quietly technical, and deeply design-driven. Rooted firmly in a golden age of excess and elegance, this watch recalls a moment when Piaget was as much a fixture of the cultural elite as it was of the watchmaking world. It evokes the same rarefied orbit that once included Andy Warhol, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, and Elvis Presley—figures who understood that a watch could be a declaration of taste, identity, and confidence, not merely a tool for keeping time.

Executed entirely in yellow gold, the watch feels more like a jewel than a traditional timekeeper. The square Emperador case flows seamlessly into an openwork gold bracelet, its polished links creating a sense of lightness despite the material's richness. It’s architecture as adornment—bold, graphic, and unmistakably Piaget. At the center sits the real star: a tiger’s-eye stone dial, alive with natural striations and warm, golden-brown tones that shift as the light moves. No two are alike, and Piaget wisely lets the stone speak for itself, pairing it only with slender gold dauphine hands and no hour markers to interrupt the view.

Inside, an ultra-thin manual-wind Calibre reminds you that this is serious horology beneath the surface glamour. Elegant, restrained, and impeccably finished, it’s a movement that helped define Piaget’s reputation for technical refinement.

What makes this watch feel especially relevant today is the broader shift happening among collectors. After years dominated by steel sport and tool watches, there’s a renewed appetite for pieces led by design, materiality, and individuality.

Jewelry watches, stone dials, and sculptural forms are back in focus—because unique is in. In that context, this Emperador doesn’t feel like a throwback; it feels prescient. This is not a watch for timing laps. It’s a watch for dramatic entrances—for collectors who understand that the future of taste often looks a lot like the past, reexamined with fresh eyes.

General

Condition

Pre-owned

Brand

Piaget

Reference

9131

Year

1970s

Family

Emperador

Product Code

40992891

Watch Display

Analog

Case

Case Size

26 mm

Case Material

Yellow Gold

Dial

Dial Color

Exotic

Movement

Type

Manual-winding

Bracelet

Bracelet Material

Metal

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