The Piaget polo team, led by Marcos Heguy, the Swiss watchmaker’s ambassador to the polo world, were busy preparing this week to compete in the United Kingdom’s premier high-goal tournament, the British Open Championship for the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup, after a successful run in their first outing in English polo.
Piaget were one of only 8 teams of the 14 teams in June’s Queen’s Cup to qualify and only one of three to come through the leagues undefeated. They make it into the quarter-finals, an admirable record for a new team.
In their last game Thursday (10 June) in the semi-finals of the Queen’s Cup subsidiary, Marcos Heguy and his brother Bautista fought hard against a much improved Enigma side, but lost the match despite a second half rally. Piaget held their opponents scoreless in the last chukka, but time ran out and Enigma won it 11-9.
The Piaget team, formed to celebrate this summer’s opening of Piaget’s new boutique in London’s New Bond Street, is one of 20
teams in contention for the coveted Gold Cup at Cowdray Park Polo Club. This event, drawing players from a dozen or more countries, ranks with the Argentina and US opens as one of the sport’s top competitions.
The British Open starts at Cowdray Park 22 June and ends 18 July.
