Ms. Sivrière was born in Paris in 1975 and grew up between the mountain resorts of Megève and Chamonix in southeastern France. She turned fascinated about jewellery when she was younger, after assembly a pal of her father’s who was concerned within the diamond commerce. “I used to be mesmerized by the sweetness and reflection of this stone,” she wrote.

Ms. Sivrière attended a jewellery and goldsmith college in Paris, later renamed Haute École de Joaillerie, the place she realized numerous jewelry-making strategies. After commencement, she labored as a contract employee for a jewellery firm in Place Vendôme, Paris. She then joined Piaget as a jewellery designer in 2002 as a result of, she mentioned, it was the chance to assist the model, identified for its conventional watchmakers, strengthen its jewellery enterprise.

“This was a special time for the model and the business; tremendous jewellery wasn’t as large as it’s at the moment,” she writes.

In 2011, Ms. Sivrière was appointed Inventive Director of Jewellery, and in 2016 she started overseeing watches, reflecting Piaget’s new curiosity in making certain that its watch and jewellery designs are in concord.

“After I was requested to work on watches, it was a problem as a result of they’ve two totally different vocabularies,” she mentioned. “Right now, that makes complete sense. I can play each.”

Ms. Sivrière typically wears an Altiplano Final computerized watch on her wrist, which many watch lovers take into account to be the purest essence of the model’s watchmaking experience. “That is the essence of Piaget’s watchmaking artwork,” she wrote.