Piaget Puts a Minute Repeater in a 9.3mm Polo Sports Case

WatchPro reported that Piaget has issued a Polo Minute Repeater, a chiming sports watch with a partly open-worked dial, limited to five numbered pieces this year. Price is on application. The maison’s 2013 Polo Emperador held a record as the world’s thinnest minute repeater; the new watch moves that work into the current Polo “shape-in-a-shape” sports line.

Calibre 1290P in a slim gold hull

Calibre 1290P is developed, finished, and assembled at La Côte-aux-Fées. WatchPro cited 430 components, bevelled bridges, a guilloché mainplate, mirror-polished hammers, and a blue PVD-coated platinum micro-rotor. The gold dial is hand-guilloché; a blue sapphire element reveals the repeater regulator, with more of the train visible under a gold fillet. The white-gold case is 48mm across and 9.30mm thick. Water resistance is 30 metres. The strap is blue calfskin.

A high-jewellery version with blue sapphires and diamonds and a fully open-worked dial was also mentioned, rarer still than the five-piece run. Hearing either in the wild, WatchPro noted, is as unlikely as the thickness is low for a chiming watch.

Thirty metres is not a dive rating. It is enough for a sports-shaped gold watch that will rarely see a pool. The industry point is the category: a minute repeater in an integrated-look Polo rather than a dress round. Ultra-thin chiming is Piaget’s historical claim; putting it in the Polo silhouette is a 2026 catalogue decision, not a new physics of sound.

Sports-watch language at haute scale

Integrated sports cases are the decade’s default luxury shape. A repeater inside one is still scarce because gongs, hammers, and a 9.3mm stack fight each other. Five watches a year do not change that. They give Piaget a talking piece in a market where Bonhams’ Jonathan Darracott has said younger auction buyers are looking at Piaget and dress watches again.

Builders working on steel sports cases will not add cathedral gongs. They will argue about crystal height and bracelet taper. A sapphire crystal upgrade is the usual first mechanical change on a Seiko-sized sports watch. Bracelet geometry—oyster three-piece versus five-link jubilee—is the other; a Jubilee vs Oyster guide covers end-link and clasp fit. Those are the accessible cousins of a 48mm gold Polo, not substitutes for a 1290P.

The news is the count and the thickness: five chiming Polos, 9.30mm, 30m, manufacture finishing at La Côte-aux-Fées. Availability is not a wait list in the Rolex sense. It is a numbered handful.

FAQ

How many Polo Minute Repeaters are there this year? WatchPro said five numbered pieces, plus a separate high-jewellery sapphire-and-diamond open-worked version.

Is 9.30mm a record? The 2013 Polo Emperador was described as the world’s thinnest minute repeater at the time. The 2026 Polo is presented as a slim sports-case follow-on, not necessarily a new world record in the report.

Can it be worn as a tool watch? Water resistance is 30 metres. The case is 48mm white gold. The product is a haute sports-shaped chiming watch, not a diver.