Piaget Andy Warhol Camouflage watch: 86 pieces in gold and stone

A year after “Collage”, Piaget returns to Andy Warhol with a dial made of stone and gold. The La Côte-aux-Fées house translates the military pattern of the 1986 self-portraits into its own speciality, ornamental stone marquetry. The watch carries reference G0A51242.

The 1986 self-portraits as a starting point

In 1986, Andy Warhol produced a series of self-portraits in which his face disappears beneath a camouflage pattern in colours both deep and bright. Piaget reads them as a reflection on fame and its darker side. The house does not copy any one canvas: it deconstructs the pattern and rebuilds it in stone and gold. “Our aim is to draw inspiration from Andy Warhol’s creations without reproducing any one of his works, strictly speaking, on a dial,” explains Stéphanie Sivrière, Piaget’s artistic director, for whom colour remains the direct link between the artist and the house.

27 gems and a hundred hours for one dial

The dial combines two blue stones, cerulean turquoise and ocean-blue sodalite, with satin-finished yellow gold and polished rose gold. The contrast between the two-tone metal and the pair of blues gives the camouflage a depth that Piaget calls architectural. The marquetry counts 27 gems and took more than a hundred hours of work. Only the Piaget name and two dauphine hands sit on top of it. Since colour and gold entered its creations in the early 1960s, the house has used some fifty ornamental stones, from lapis lazuli to opal, by way of jade and coral.

Seven Piaget watches on Andy Warhol’s wrist

A compulsive watch buyer, Andy Warhol owned at least seven Piaget models. Among them was reference 15102, a 45 mm cushion case designed by Jean-Claude Gueit, then the house’s artistic director, and made in a small series from 1972 to 1977. Reissued in 2014 as the Black Tie Vintage, the design has carried the artist’s name since 2024, thanks to a partnership with the foundation. The agreement provides for one collector’s piece a year inspired by Warhol’s work. The first, “Collage”, came out in 2025 with flat areas of pink opal, green chrysoprase and yellow serpentine.

What lies behind the engraved back?

The gadrooned cushion case comes here in rhodium-plated 750/1000 white gold, water-resistant to 3 bar. It houses calibre 501P1, an in-house automatic movement beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz) with a 40-hour power reserve. Its finishes include circular Côtes de Genève, perlage, bevelled bridges, blued screws and a slate-grey tungsten oscillating weight. The solid caseback does not show the movement: it bears Andy Warhol’s signature and the mention of the 86-piece limited edition. The watch is worn on a blue alligator strap with a rhodium-plated gold pin buckle.

91,000 euros for the second edition

In its online boutique, Piaget lists the watch at 91,000 euros including VAT in France, and 90,500 euros in Belgium and Monaco. The income the Andy Warhol Foundation earns from its licences, this one included, helps fund its grants. Set up in 1987 under the artist’s will, it has distributed more than 268 million euros (300 million dollars), at the ECB rate of 6 November 2026. Piaget recently celebrated colour with the close of its Extraleganza trilogy; to set the piece against the records, see the most expensive watches in the world.

Information checked on 9 November 2026. Sources: Piaget press release of 5 November 2026, reference G0A51242 product page on piaget.com, Piaget’s Andy Warhol “Camouflage” page.