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SIHH 2015: Piaget Altiplano Chronograph - world’s thinnest hand-wound flyback chronograph

Dec 04, 2014,16:09 PM
 

Piaget releases the 41mm Altiplano Chronograph with an ultra-thin 8.24mm case as a prelude to SIHH 2015.

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Anthony

 












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Correction needed

 
 By: jkingston : January 15th, 2015-10:59
Piaget claims a record with a thinness of 4.65 mm for the hand wound chrono movement. Yet the Blancpain 1180 hand wound chrono was 3.95 mm thick (and the automatic version, the 1185 is 5.5 mm). Thus, there is no record for movement thinness here.

Amendment to the correction: Piaget claims the world thinnest FLYBACK chromo...

 
 By: Ornatus-Mundi : January 17th, 2015-07:00
and the Piguet 1180 was not. Piaget does not claim the world's thinnest manual wound chronograph movement... I am not sure whether a Flyback function adds much height, but taken as it is the claim seems correct . According to my knowledge there never was ...