Piaget watches and jewellery are precious objects made using the noblest of materials. They require appropriate and regular servicing. You can also help maintain your watch or jewellery by following our care instructions and by taking certain precautions.
Regular preventive maintenance of your watch will protect it against the effects of the natural wear of certain components and against oil deterioration.
We recommend that you have your watch serviced by a Piaget boutique or authorised retailer every three years, alternating between a maintenance and complete service.
Cleaning your watch
When you remove your watch, wipe off moisture and perspiration with a soft cloth. A special chamois leather is available from Piaget boutiques for this purpose.
Clean your water-resistant watch regularly with a damp cloth without wetting the leather strap and dry it gently with a chamois leather.
For water-resistant watches with a metal bracelet, use a soft brush and slightly soapy water for the bracelet and a damp cloth for the watch head. Then rinse the bracelet under warm running water (after swimming in the sea or after cleaning it with soap).
Dry your watch with a soft cloth. Never put it on a radiator and never use a hair dryer.
Winding your watch and setting the time
To ensure optimum performance, we recommend that you fully wind your mechanical watch once a day, ideally at the same time each day. When you wind it, make sure you do not force the crown when it stops, as this could seriously damage the movement.
To ensure the continuous operation of your self-winding watch, it must be worn every day. If not, simply give the crown a dozen or so turns before putting it on your wrist.
The date must never be set between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., otherwise the mechanism may be damaged. It is during these hours that the pinions position themselves to automatically change the date. Be especially careful to always change the date outside this time zone.
Storing and transporting your watch
When not wearing your watch, store it in its original case. A manually wound or self-winding mechanical watch should be wound at least once a month.
Avoid leaving a flat battery in a quartz watch as it could leak and seriously damage the movement without this being visible from the outside.
If you need to transport a Piaget watch or piece of jewellery, make sure it is carefully packed and protected, preferably in its original case or in a Piaget travel pouch (available from boutiques). This will prevent it from being damaged.
Leather straps
Your leather strap is a natural hand-crafted product. Its production involves around sixty separate operations, many of which are performed by hand.
We recommend that you change your strap every six to twelve months, depending on the conditions of its use.
To provide maximum protection for your leather, we recommend you note the following points:
- Contact with water or exposure to high humidity can affect the material and cause discolouration.
- Extended exposure to direct sunlight can impair the colour and quality of the leather.
- Cosmetics or oily products can stain the leather, as it is a permeable product.
Magnetic fields on your watch
In everyday life, we increasingly come into contact with magnetic fields. They can affect the correct operation of your watch. While they will not actually damage your watch, they can nonetheless lessen its precision or even cause it to stop.
We therefore recommend you avoid placing your watch near any object that gives off a magnetic field, such as magnets, magnetic clasps on handbags, TVs or speakers.
If you have any doubts, take your watch to a Piaget boutique or dealer to be checked.
Your watch's water-resistance
With the exception of a few specific models, Piaget watches are designed and crafted to guarantee water-resistance to at least 30 metres.
However, the functions, push-pieces and crown on your watch should not be operated underwater.
In the event of persistent condensation under the crystal, have your watch checked. Non-water-resistant watches are nonetheless resistant to dust and ambient humidity.
They should not, however, be brought into contact with liquids or subjected to high-humidity environments (a sauna, for example). When a watch is exposed to extreme temperatures, sudden atmospheric changes (sauna), cosmetics, cleaning products or perspiration, its water-resistance may be affected.
This is why Piaget advises having a regular check performed every two years, in compliance with the recommendations in its maintenance policy.
