Gérald Genta: Icon of Time
Gérald Genta: Icon of Time
Gérald Genta
Design of a Piaget wristwatch with accompanying NFT Circa 1962
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Gérald Genta
Design of a Piaget wristwatch with accompanying NFT
Circa 1962
Medium: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 210 x 147 mm
Signed: yes
Numbered: G.1494, on the reverse
Brand: Piaget
Model: N/A
Complication: dual time
Remark: dial in coral and malachite, design not shared with Piaget
Accompanied by: design in the form of a NFT, digital certificate in the form of a NFT and authentication certificate
Piaget is arguably the best known manufacturer of bracelet watches with hardstone dials. Especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s many different examples were produced with exotic materials such as coral, malachite, lapis lazuli, turquoise and opal to name a few.
The present painting by the great Gérald Genta depicts an early design for a rectangular dual time zone wristwatch with coral and malachite dial. While never shared with Piaget and thus never made, it clearly visualizes a model that could very well have fitted in with models that were actually produced.