The new 86-piece limited edition transforms Warhol’s 1986 Camouflage self-portraits into a dial of turquoise, sodalite and gold — continuing a relationship between the artist and Piaget that began decades ago.
There are collaborations created for a season, and then there are relationships with enough history behind them to keep producing new chapters.
Piaget’s relationship with Andy Warhol belongs firmly in the second category.
For 2026, the Swiss Maison has unveiled the Andy Warhol “Camouflage” Limited Edition, transforming the visual language of Warhol’s 1986 Camouflage self-portraits into an intricate watch dial made from ornamental stone and gold.
Only 86 pieces will be produced worldwide, a number chosen in reference to the year the works that inspired it were created.
FROM SELF-PORTRAIT TO STONE
In his 1986 Camouflage self-portraits, Warhol placed his own face beneath vivid camouflage patterns, using concealment to explore something he understood particularly well: visibility.
The artist had become one of the most recognizable figures in contemporary culture, yet the series played with the tension between being seen and being hidden.
Piaget does not simply reproduce one of those portraits on a watch face.
Instead, the Maison breaks the camouflage motif apart and rebuilds it through materials.
The dial is composed of 27 individual pieces combining deep blue sodalite, turquoise, satin-finished yellow gold and polished rose gold. The different colors, textures and finishes give the camouflage pattern an architectural quality rather than the appearance of a printed image.
Researching, developing and creating the dial required more than 100 hours of work.
It sits inside Piaget’s distinctive 45mm gadrooned cushion-shaped case, executed here in 18-karat white gold and paired with a blue alligator leather strap.
Inside is Piaget’s 501P1 Manufacture self-winding movement, while the white-gold caseback carries the Piaget logo, Andy Warhol’s signature and the individual limited-edition number.
WARHOL WASN’T JUST A NAME ON THE DIAL
What gives this collaboration greater significance is that Andy Warhol actually had a history with Piaget.
Warhol was an obsessive watch collector and owned seven Piaget timepieces. Among them was reference 15102, the oversized cushion-shaped watch designed by Jean-Claude Gueit and produced by Piaget during the 1970s.
The watch was unconventional for its time — large, geometric and unmistakably glamorous.
So was Warhol.
His connection with the company extended beyond collecting. Warhol developed a friendship with Yves Piaget, with the two moving through overlapping worlds of art, fashion, nightlife and travel during an era when places such as Studio 54 brought those circles together.
Decades later, the relationship found a new form.
Piaget revived the design in the 2010s as the Black Tie Vintage Inspiration. Then, in 2024, the Maison formalized a partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, giving the historic model a name that acknowledged the person with whom collectors had already associated it: the Andy Warhol watch.
The partnership opened the door for Piaget to create new pieces inspired by Warhol’s work.
The colorful “Collage” Limited Edition followed in 2025. Camouflage now continues that story for 2026.
PIAGET’S OTHER LANGUAGE: COLOR
Warhol and Piaget also share something fundamental: an obsession with color.
Long before ornamental stone dials became fashionable again, Piaget was experimenting with materials including lapis lazuli, jade, opal, coral and turquoise.
Beginning in the 1960s, those stones became part of the Maison’s visual identity.
Camouflage takes that history and places it inside Warhol’s world.
Rather than making a watch that simply carries an artist’s name, Piaget has attempted to translate the qualities of his work — repetition, abstraction, color, celebrity and disguise — into the techniques of high watchmaking.
That distinction matters.
Because the most interesting part of the Piaget x Andy Warhol story may not be that a luxury watch company has turned famous artwork into a collectible.
It is that decades before anyone imagined this collaboration, Andy Warhol was already wearing Piaget.
The new Camouflage simply brings the relationship full circle.