Watches and Wonders 2023: The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

One twelvemonth aft debuting the satellite premiere Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante, Parmigiani Fleurier this twelvemonth follows up with different premiere jumping manus watch, the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante.

The caller Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante.

The caller ticker echoes past year’s GMT by performing a classical timing relation with a new, simpler operation. Where that earlier exemplary allowed for a hand-based show of GMT time, the caller ticker allows the idiosyncratic to cheque elapsed minutes on-demand via a second-minute manus hidden straight nether the superior infinitesimal hand.

Instead of turning a calibrated bezel (as connected a dive watch), the idiosyncratic simply presses a pusher to determination the second, golden hr manus to the desired time.

With the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante, it’s the movement’s power of the second-minute manus that performs the elapsed clip display, not the user’s bezel-read calculation. The elapsed clip is indicated erstwhile the superior infinitesimal manus reaches – and covers – the golden infinitesimal hand.

This show tin beryllium utilized for immoderate good calibration of the minutes implicit a circumstantial play of time, oregon for immoderate juncture oregon lawsuit requiring measurement of the minutes count, specified arsenic for cooking times oregon crippled times.

To usage the function, the wearer tin determination the roseate golden manus successful either five-minute increments (via the pusher astatine 8 o’clock) oregon one-minute increments (via the pusher positioned astatine 10 o’clock). Once the 2 hands conscionable and superimpose, the play of clip to beryllium measured volition person elapsed.

At immoderate time, the wearer tin instrumentality the golden manus to its presumption hidden underneath the rhodium-plated superior infinitesimal manus by pressing the crown-integrated pusher, successful a akin mode to the split-seconds function. 

As connected past year’s Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante, this caller hand-based clip counting relation is lone disposable erstwhile activated.

The question that makes these functions possible, caller caliber PF 052, is powered by an elegant rose-gold micro-rotor and is afloat disposable from the backmost of the 40mm alloy case.  

The functionality present is of people paired with the watchmaker’s high-end workmanship and finishing. These see a hand-cut Grain d’Orge guilloché dial successful a soil grey colour and 18-karat golden hands and markers. As connected each Tonda PF models, the knurled bezel is platinum.

The new Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante is a welcome, ingenious summation to Parmigiani Fleurier’s caller bid of hand-based complication displays.

Price: $30,600. 

Also caller successful 2023

In summation to the headliner Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante, Parmigiani Fleurier debuts a platinum-cased Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon with a stunning Milano bluish dial ($163,700), a premiere all-platinum Tonda PF Microrotor exemplary with clip and day lone ($92,800), and a trio of perpetual models displaying clip utilizing the Islamic, Chinese and Gregorian calendars.

The caller Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon.

The caller all-platinum Tonda PF Microrotor.

The watchmaker besides adds a rose-gold variation of past year’s premiere PF GMT Rattrapante, implicit with a rich Grain d’Orge guilloché dial successful Milano blue,($65,500) positive a rose-gold variation of its ever awesome Tonda PF Split-Seconds Chronograph ($169,100).

A caller rose-gold variation of past year’s premiere Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante.

The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Split-Seconds Chronograph, present successful roseate gold.