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The 1270P is derived from two ultra-thin Piaget movements: the 600P, the world's thinnest hand-wound tourbillon movement,
and the 1208P, the world's thinnest self-winding movement, fitted with a micro-rotor.
The 1270P is Piaget's first self-winding, ultra-thin movement.
It measures 5.55 mm in thickness and incorporates several technical and design innovations.
It is a genuine signature of Haute Horlogerie, one of the most symbolic complications that exist.
Apart from the technical achievement of producing a highly complex mechanical movement of 269 components,
in an extremely small space,
– some wheels are barely more than 0.12 mm thick -
it is also distinguished by its exceptional design.
It confidently ignores the established codes of fine watchmaking by inversing its key elements.
On the dial side, the off-center micro-rotor made in gold is open to full view and intertwines with the impressive off-center tourbillon carriage,
creating the figure 8, the definitive lucky number.
Also off-centered are the hour and minute hands, positioned at 5 o'clock and decorated with a sunburst guillochage.
The delicate finishing of the movement is clearly visible: sun motif guillochage produced by laser,
slender hour markers pointing to the off-centered hands, underlined counters,
oscillating weight and tourbillon in gold.
The contemporary feel of the whole movement is counterbalanced by the traditional Haute Horlogerie decoration of the micro-rotor:
guillochage and the Piaget coat-of-arms.
The solid case-back is engraved with the Piaget coat-of-arms and the name of the 1270P movement.
It includes two apertures: one for the power-reserve indicator, the other revealing the bottom of the tourbillon cage.