This week on the wrist is borne completely out of curiosity. I have tried on Piaget Altiplano watches over the years and found them sometimes comfortable to wear. There’s always a resounding refrain of “it’s hard to go back to heavier / larger / thicker watches once you get used to it” in interviews and conversations with Altiplano owners. Therefore, when given the chance to have an extended period of time with the Ultra-Thin date in rose gold, I just go for it. 
My first impression was a clean, deeply stylish statement, and that I might need a new wardrobe. A fake watch this slight and minimal seems to draw much more attention to the wrist, and the cuff, and the accessories that are being worn with it. While it’s saying very few words, they’re all well chosen, and they’re all expensive. Good luck dressing down this quiet achiever.
Wisely, it’s minimal and mercurial. Having said that, it attracted me how dissimilar the Altiplano is to the slew, nay, the scourge of generic minimal fashion brands currently on the market despite the elements being similar. It’s smaller in diameter, obviously eminently superior in materials and overall proportionally perfect. The mercurial part comes into it when, on about day two or three, you note the less-than-obvious details of the watch, and mostly the quality of the materials – the finely textured dial, the lustre of the gold.
I don’t have some best replica watches, except for a couple of vintage pieces, and they’re not comparable in wrist feel to the Altiplano. It is the same with the clear caseback.  
I’d change my physique if I can. What turned the heat up on this piece for me was seeing it on Michael B. Jordan’s muscular forearms. The contrast of refined and statuesque knocked me out cold – besides, it’s that next level of confidence above ‘look at me’, that is, ‘what is that?’ Unfortunately, at the time of my week with the Altiplano, I’d had an ‘extended vacation’ from the free weights room and I didn’t transmit the same ‘delicate vs brute strength’ paradox. The replica Piaget did it with the Polo last year, why not the Altiplano? What stopped me from wearing it while typing, for example, for fear of scratching the gold tang, would not be an issue in a hardier, less-precious variant.
I had mixed feelings at the end of the week. I was grateful to go back to a tougher tool watch in steel that doesn’t scream poverty when paired with a puffer vest, but at my first business meeting, when I was in a blazer with nicely ironed cuffs, I missed it, and the way it slipped so sleekly under said sleeve, and then out again with a subtle movement of the wrist to check the time. This all, of course, says more about me than the watch.