Parmigiani Fleurier presents the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante, a new world premiere embodying functional continuity with the Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante launched in 2022. The GMT Rattrapante is now housed in a new 18ct rose gold version, while the Tonda PF Tourbillon dons a platinum dial tinged with Milano blue this year
Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante
The Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante performs a function usually operated by the graduated bezel on a diver’s watch via the movement itself. This new development of the function now serves to display the minutes in five and one-minute increments respectively. The dial features an hour hand along with two superimposed minute hands – of which the premiere in rhodium-plated gold indicates real time coupled with the hour hand. The other hand in 18ct rose gold calculates minutes in five or one-minute increments on demand. Pressing on either pusher will make the rose gold hand jump – five minutes by the pusher at 8 o’clock, one minute by the one at 10 o’clock. The period of time to be measured will have elapsed when the rhodium-plated hand has reached the position of the 18ct rose gold hand. It is returned to its position by means of the crown-integrated pusher, in a similar way to the split-seconds function.
Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante
This iconic timepiece returns in an integral 18ct rose gold version, graced with a Milano blue dial featuring a finely barleycorn guilloché pattern. The timepiece appears totally unassuming at first glance, with hours and minutes sweeping gracefully around the broad dial. Yet beneath this traditional watch face lies a complication powering two superimposed hours hands, one in rhodium-plated gold and the other in rose gold. Pressing the 8 o’clock pusher makes the 18ct rose gold hand dedicated to local time perform a one-hour jump, revealing the rhodium-plated gold hand displaying home time. Once the dual-time information is no longer required, pressing the crown-integrated pusher enables the 18ct rose gold hand to resume its place above the rhodium-plated gold hand in the manner of a chronograph split-seconds hand.
Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon
This year’s Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon features a platinum dial in a Milano blue shade, which highlights the generous opening at 7 o’clock, providing a look at the perpetual moving regulating organ. Concealed beneath the Milano blue dial, the completely in-house calibre – a flying tourbillon movement with automatic winding via a platinum micro-rotor – reveals some of its 207 components through the transparent case back. This 32.6 mm-diameter Reference PF517 movement is accurate, lastingly reliable and finished to the highest fine watchmaking standards (bevelling, circular-graining, Côtes de Genève) and measures a mere 3.4 mm thick. The Tonda PF Flying Tourbillon is accentuated by its finely knurled and polished platinum bezel.
Tonda PF Split Seconds Chronograph
This reinterpretation comes in an 18ct rose gold case and bracelet, which allows the wearer to admire the 18ct rose gold movement with a barrel featuring Michel Parmigiani’s signature. Designed to measure split times, the timepiece is equipped with two superimposed chronograph hands. Activating the 1 o’clock pusher makes the two hands turn together. The 4 o’clock pusher stops the upper hand while the lower hand continues running. Another press at 4 o’clock brings the upper hand back to the second one. The split time is measured at the first stop. The movement features a high 5Hz frequency, along with two column-wheels: one dedicated to the chronograph and the other to operating the split-seconds function via the crown-integrated pusher. The Calibre PF361 boasts a 65-hour power reserve. The dial also displays tachymeter and pulsometer scales, while the split-seconds hands adopt different colours, as do the counters appearing slightly above the crown axis.
