Piaget Turns Warhol’s Camouflage Into a Marquetry Dial

Piaget’s Andy Warhol watch is becoming more than a revival of a shape once worn by the artist.

For 2026, the maison has turned to one of Warhol’s final visual signatures, translating his camouflage self-portrait into a limited-edition watch with a dial built from stone and gold marquetry.

The result is not a printed homage, but a small, highly controlled piece of decorative craft with a direct link to Warhol’s late work.

At a glance

• Piaget has unveiled the Andy Warhol ‘Camouflage’ as its 2026 annual limited edition dedicated to Warhol’s artworks.
• The dial uses marquetry in sodalite, turquoise, pink gold and yellow gold to echo a blue and yellow camouflage self-portrait from 1986.
• The watch is limited to 86 pieces and priced at £79,000.

Warhol’s camouflage reworked in stone and gold

The watch draws on Warhol’s Self-Portrait in camouflage, produced in 1986, only months before his death in 1987.

Several versions of the image exist, each placing Warhol’s head against a dark void and overlaying it with a camouflage pattern in different colour arrangements.

Piaget has chosen a version built around blue and yellow tones, but the dial doesn’t simply reproduce the artwork in paint.

Instead, the pattern is assembled through marquetry, a métiers d’art technique in which individual pieces of natural material are cut and fitted together with extreme precision.

Here, dark blue areas are formed from sodalite, lighter blue sections from turquoise, and the warmer tones from pink and yellow gold.

That choice gives the watch a more tactile reading of camouflage, where colour, shadow and material variation do some of the work that flat pigment would usually handle.

A Warhol-era Piaget shape returns with a sharper art-world role

Piaget formalised its collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2024, renaming the historic Piaget model owned and worn by Warhol as the Andy Warhol watch.

As part of that partnership, the maison is creating one limited edition each year dedicated to Warhol’s artworks.

The 2026 ‘Camouflage’ follows the 2025 ‘Collage’ edition and moves the concept into a more graphic, late-Warhol register.

The white gold case keeps the model’s rounded cushion profile and gadroon decoration, with smooth, curved lines framing the edge of the case.

At 45mm across, it is a large watch on paper, though the integrated lugs and crown help the case read as a single rounded form rather than a conventional oversized case.

Ultra-thin mechanics beneath the marquetry dial

Inside the watch is Piaget’s calibre 501P1 automatic movement.

The movement is 3.63mm thick and offers a 40-hour power reserve, allowing the case to remain 8.08mm thick despite the broad cushion silhouette.

The movement is protected by a solid caseback that carries Andy Warhol’s signature.

The combination of white gold, a highly detailed marquetry dial and a limited production run places the piece firmly in collector territory.

Details & Specifications

The edition count nods to 1986, the year of the camouflage self-portrait that inspired the watch.

For watch collectors, the appeal lies in Piaget’s thin-watch discipline meeting one of its most culturally recognisable case designs, while Warhol collectors will see a wearable object tied closely to a late and distinctive body of work.