Piaget Announces its new Polo Ambassadors for the 2014 Argentinean Season
This Thursday, September 25th, at the Etiqueta Negra flagship store located at Dardo Rocha 1366 in Buenos Aires, Piaget will strengthen its ties even more with Polo introducing its sports ambassadors; thefour members of the Ellerstina Piaget Polo team; six-time champions of the Argentine Polo Open:brothers Facundo Pieres, Gonzalo Pieres (h) and Nicolas Pieres, together with Mariano Aguerre.
For their third consecutive season, the foursome will take part in the Argentine Triple Crown; made upof the Tortugas, Hurlingham and Palermo Open Championships; tournaments which have already beenwon by Ellerstina multiple times.
The Palermo Open Championship, the most important of the world, was first won by the GeneralRodriguez team in 1994, in 1997 and in 1998. During these three occasions, Gonzalo Pieres, father ofthree of the current players of Ellerstina, integrated the team.
The team obtained these same victories in 2008, 2010 and 2012, but now with Facundo and GonzaloPieres (son) being part of it; while the youngest member of the family became part of the team duringthe last victory year. In addition, the four polo players have also obtained hundreds of trophies allaround the world, including the US, British and Spanish polo seasons, among many others.
Piaget and Ellerstina are very similar; they work in teams, and have the same motto “always do betterthan necessary”. Both have extraordinary skill and dedication, and like Piaget in the watch industry, thePieres family is involved in all aspects of the game. Everything must fit perfectly, from the breeding andtraining of horses to the matches themselves; forcing everything to work like clockwork. The Ellerstina
Piaget team is recognized globally as winners of this great sport, for their passion in all aspects of thegame and the perpetual quest for perfection.
The four team members of Ellerstina Piaget wear the PoloFortyFive, reference G0A37004. It has a black dial with blacksuperluminova indexes and blue minute markers. Thistimepiece has a 880P Manufacture Piaget movement, flybackchronograph, second time zone, date, and is an ultra-thinself-winding mechanical movement