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

From JustLuxe content material companion iW Journal

One 12 months after debuting the world premiere Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante, Parmigiani Fleurier this 12 months follows up with one other premiere leaping hand watch, the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante.

The brand new Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante.

The brand new watch echoes final 12 months’s GMT by performing a traditional timing operate with a brand new, easier operation. The place that earlier mannequin allowed for a hand-based show of GMT time, the brand new watch permits the consumer to test elapsed minutes on-demand by way of a second-minute hand hidden immediately below the first minute hand.

As an alternative of turning a calibrated bezel (as on a dive watch), the consumer merely presses a pusher to maneuver the second, gold hour hand to the specified time.

With the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante, it’s the motion’s management of the second-minute hand that performs the elapsed time show, not the consumer’s bezel-read calculation. The elapsed time is indicated when the first minute hand reaches – and covers – the gold minute hand.

This show can be utilized for any fantastic calibration of the minutes over a selected time period, or for any event or occasion requiring measurement of the minutes rely, corresponding to for cooking occasions or sport occasions.

To make use of the operate, the wearer can transfer the rose gold hand in both five-minute increments (by way of the pusher at 8 o’clock) or one-minute increments (by way of the pusher positioned at 10 o’clock). As soon as the 2 palms meet and superimpose, the time period to be measured may have elapsed.

At any time, the wearer can return the gold hand to its place hidden beneath the rhodium-plated main minute hand by urgent the crown-integrated pusher, in an identical strategy to the split-seconds operate. 

As on final 12 months’s Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante, this new hand-based time counting operate is just seen when activated.

The motion that makes these capabilities doable, new caliber PF 052, is powered by a chic rose-gold micro-rotor and is absolutely seen from the again of the 40mm metal case.  

The performance right here is after all paired with the watchmaker’s high-end workmanship and ending. These embody a hand-cut Grain d’Orge guilloché dial in a sand gray colour and 18-karat gold palms and markers. As on all Tonda PF fashions, the knurled bezel is platinum.

The brand new Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante is a welcome, ingenious addition to Parmigiani Fleurier’s new collection of hand-based complication shows.

Value: $30,600. 

Additionally new in 2023

Along with the headliner Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante, Parmigiani Fleurier debuts a platinum-cased Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon with a surprising Milano blue dial ($163,700), a premiere all-platinum Tonda PF Microrotor mannequin with time and date solely ($92,800), and a trio of perpetual fashions displaying time utilizing the Islamic, Chinese language and Gregorian calendars.

The brand new Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon.

The brand new all-platinum Tonda PF Microrotor.

The watchmaker additionally provides a rose-gold version of final 12 months’s premiere PF GMT Rattrapante, full with a wealthy Grain d’Orge guilloché dial in Milano blue,($65,500) plus a rose-gold version of its at all times spectacular Tonda PF Cut up-Seconds Chronograph ($169,100).

A brand new rose-gold version of final 12 months’s premiere Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante.

The Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Cut up-Seconds Chronograph, now in rose gold.