Move or Possession

Possession was Piaget's first gold jewelry line built around a moving part, launched in 1990: a free band that spins around a fixed ring, credited to Yves G. Piaget. Move, seventeen years later in Paris, works along a different axis. Valérie Messika set diamonds loose in a gold cage so they slide from end to end, first three on a chain bracelet, then a single one in Move Uno, and later across bangles and multi-finger rings. Rotation against translation, the finger against the wrist, and both made for restless hands.