Swiss Watch Magazine 'Montres Passion' Crowns Two Piaget Watches As Watches Of the Year

I had very nice things to say about it, especially given the interesting format of the small seconds. The used of the half circle to add dimension to it was nice, and even today it is difficult to identify exactly what this addition to the watch does. Since having created my own award system on aBlogtoRead.com, I have awarded the Piaget Altiplano Petit Seconds watch with an aBlogtoRead.com Seal of Approval award.The watch is a pure luxury watch through and through, all the way to the basics. Piaget, the watch maker constructs the Caliber 838P movement entirely in-house. While the movement is bare bones basics offering only the basic time telling functionality and being manually found, it is extremely thin a 2.5mm thick, and is beautifully constructed. The power reserve is also an impressive 60 hours. Really, the design of the watch is absolute grace. Everything about it just screams classic simplicity without being classic or ***. I feel comfortable saying that this is a truly timeless looking watch. It would have looked good 100 years ago, and will look good in 100 years.It is nice to have your tastes validated, especially by people with such legendary priss a Swiss watch magazines. The magazine Montres Passion once again released the results of their annual Watch of the Year Award (2008) giving actual trophy awards to several watches in a few categories. However, the title of "watch of the year" and "best ladies' watch" were both awarded to Piaget watches. Both watches that I like a lot; the Piaget Altiplano Petit Seconds (aka the Piaget Altiplano Eccentric Small Seconds), and the lady's Piaget Magic Hours.The criteria for the two watches was very different. Men's watches are judged based on style, mechanics, and practicality. While women's watches are judged based on use of materials, beauty, and uniqueness. For example, I don't think that any man's watch with a quartz movement would make it anywhere near "watch of the year" but that is ok for a woman's watch.I wrote about the Piaget Altiplano Petit Seconds watch when it first came out a while ago.