Andy Warhol amassed quite the watch collection during his life—including a piece or two from Piaget (around seven, to be exact). And now, the maison has collaborated with the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts to bring an homage to the artist to your wrist.
Meet the Camouflage watch, a creation inspired by Warhol’s Camouflage self-portraits, which the artist crafted in 1986. As such, just 86 pieces of this iteration of the Andy Warhol watch will be made. Piaget takes the bold colors splashed across the American creative’s face in the series and plops them right on the dial. Here, sodalite and turquoise stones are the stars in waves of blue, paired alongside satin-finished gold and polished rose gold to add texture and dimension to that camouflage look. Piaget uses 27 pieces in all to make the dial, which it took over 100 hours of R&D and craftsmanship to come to life, into a blend of blue and warm hues.
Beating away inside the gadrooned white-gold case lies Piaget’s 501 P1 caliber, an automatic movement that powers those dauphine hands and offers up a 40-hour power reserve. Flip the watch over, and you’ll catch a glimpse of Warhol’s engraved signature, as well as the number of watches in the series.
“Our objective is to take inspiration from Andy Warhol’s creations without strictly reproducing each of his works on a dial,” Stéphanie Sivrière, artistic director of Piaget, said in a press statement. “The direct connection between Andy Warhol and Maison Piaget is color, particularly through the use of ornamental stones, which remains the common thread of this very distinctive timepiece.”
This isn’t the first time the duo has teamed up, either. In 2024, Piaget was given the go-ahead by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to rename its Black Tie watch (itself a reinvention of the iconic Ref. 15102, a 45 mm cushion-shaped timepiece Warhol owned) in Warhol’s honor. Under the new license, the maison was also able to craft one watch annually that pulled from the artist’s oeuvre. As a result, Piaget dropped the limited Collage timepiece back in 2025, home to blocks of pink opal, green chrysoprase, and yellow serpentine on the dial, now followed by the 2026 iteration (price available upon request). We’ll just have to wait and see what’s in the cards for 2027, then.
As part of Art Week NYC, a citywide gathering celebrating contemporary art, Jean-Bernard Forot, Piaget’s Head of Patrimony, is speaking with ARTnews senior editor Maximilíano Durón about Warhol’s love of timepieces and the watchmaker’s collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that grew out of it. The talk takes place at the PMC Studio on Saturday, November 14. RSVP here.
