When the Polo launched in 1979, its name nodded to the sporting pastime of the "Piaget Society" beau monde – which included tastemakers like Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, and Salvador Dalí.
The Polo was equally fashionable within, too: Powered by Piaget's in-house extra-flat 7P quartz movement, which launched in 1976, the caliber was the thinnest quartz movement at the time at 3.1 mm thick.