Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA PF Calendar Platinum Edition

 

Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA PF Calendar Platinum Trilogy Unique Edition 2023

 TIME IS FLYING
IMMERSION INTO
THE HEART OF PURISM

Parmigiani Fleurier is rewriting watchmaking in its two-pronged quest for purism and innovation. In contrast with the mainstream, Parmigiani Fleurier speaks the language of rarity, meaning, form and content, traits shared by all the new models presented at Watches and Wonders 2023. 

Through world premieres, a celebration of platinum and an exceptional trilogy, Parmigiani Fleurier is breaking new ground, yet remains faithful to the founding spirit of the company and its fundamental hallmarks of purity, discretion, and minimalist sophistication, all driven by the desire to innovate in order to make watches lifelong companions. 

Enthusiasts are invited to embark on an initiatory journey, one that began last year and which places the demand for purity at the core of the creative process with one sole objective: horological complications revisited to ensure user friendliness.

Good things come in pairs! 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 TONDA PF Minute Rattrapante is not the brand’s only high-impact new release. Platinum, the rare and precious metal that has gradually become one of Parmigiani Fleurier’s signatures, has notably been chosen for the iconic TONDA PF Micro- Rotor – a glowing tribute to the model that laid the foundations of the new collection – as well as the TONDA PF Tourbillon, which this year features a platinum dial tinged with Milano blue.

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“At Parmigiani Fleurier, we aspire to create superbly elegant timepieces that appeal to purists of tomorrow seeking personal hedonistic pleasure. A savvy cultural elite in watchmaking who appreciates heritage, superior craft and has a strong sense of style and refinement”.
— Guido Terreni, CEO Parmigiani Fleurier

CULTURAL CALENDARS TRILOGY SETS
AN EXCEPTIONAL TRILOGY OF PLATINUM CULTURAL CALENDARS

Parmigiani Fleurier presents three timepieces displaying three different calendars: Gregorian, Islamic and Chinese. This exceptional trilogy, made in platinum, is issued in a strictly limited edition of three box sets, reflects the crossroads of culture, civilisation and history, as well as the fine watchmaking to which the brand gives unique meaning. Three collectors will thus have the pleasure of enjoying a calendar trilogy unique in the world. 

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Human history has always sought to control time, its flow and its predictability, in order to organise and impart a distinctive rhythm to social, religious and agricultural life. The calendar is a universal concept enabling us to identify dates that appear like milestones in the flow of time. All civilisations have created them according to their own sensitivity and perception, based on the path of the Sun, Moon or both. While time is the same for everyone, its reading and measurement are specific to each human society. 

The calendar functions expressed by a timepiece are among the most fascinating. Mirroring civilisations and societies, receptacles of beliefs and inexpressible phenomena such as moving shadows, alternating seasons and the lunar cycle, they remain at the very heart of human activity. This cultural phenomenon has long fascinated the brand and its founder, Michel Parmigiani, for whom "the calendar is an eminently fascinating watchmaking complication, as it really is the mirror of civilisations". 

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Parmigiani Fleurier's calendar watches bear witness to Swiss watchmaking culture (involving the craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics), which appears on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. They explore the role of art mechanics in measuring the life of societies and civilisations.

GREGORIAN CALENDAR
TONDA PF
THE RETROGRADE DATE

The beauty of the Retrograde Gregorian Calendar lies in the fact that wearers need to adjust their watch only once a year. While the date automatically adapts to the respective length of 30- and 31-day months, it counts 29 days for the month of February whatever the year. This means that once a year – or rather three out of every four years – at the end of February, the wearer of the TONDA Gregorian Calendar must slip the watch off their wrist and reconnect with its subtle mechanism by setting the date manually. 

It will then keep faultless track of the date for the next 365 days. The retrograde date indication never hinders the reading of the moon phases at 6 o'clock, placing this lyrical complication in the spotlight. To ensure perfect clarity, the day of the week and the month are indicated in separate apertures at 9 and 3 o'clock respectively.

THE PRECISION MOON PHASE:

The moon phase of the TONDA Gregorian Calendar complements the date indications. It is called a "precision moon" because it requires only one correction every 122 years. This remarkable accuracy involves compensating for the discrepancy between a classic lunar cycle (29 days and 12 hours) and the real lunar cycle (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.8 seconds). 

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The TONDA Gregorian Calendar displays two depictions of the Moon – viewed from the Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres – so as to match any wearer's geographical location. The moon subdial and moon lozenges in solid rose gold stand out against an aventurine glass sky that poetically evokes the twinkling of a star-filled galaxy.

THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR, SUCCESSOR TO THE JULIAN CALENDAR:

Until 1582, Christendom used the Julian calendar instituted by Julius Caesar and based on the assumption that the length of the tropical year (the time between two transits of the Sun at the vernal point) is exactly 365.25 days. However, the actual length of the year is 365.24219 days, so that the recurrent events represented the equinoxes and solstices were moved forward by one day every 128 years: around the year 1500 CE, the spring equinox occurred ten days earlier than in ancient times, on 11 March instead of 21 March. In addition, the calculation of the date of Easter, which involves the Moon, had become completely wrong. 

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The Council of Trent therefore commissioned Pope Gregory XIII to redress the situation. With the help of scholars Christopher Clavius and Aloisius Lilius, he first removed ten days, so that the day after Thursday 4 October 1582 would be Friday 15 October. He then decided to eliminate three leap years in four centuries: only the century years divisible by 400 would remain leap years: this meant that 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, whereas 2000 was. This solution proved satisfactory and the Gregorian calendar, while not immediately adopted by all countries, is now used around the world, although some religions and societies retain their own calendar for ritual reasons.

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The TONDA Gregorian Calendar tells the story of Michel Parmigiani's passion for dates, honoured by Calibre PF339 specially developed by the Manufacture and housing a retrograde Gregorian calendar and a precision moon phase. Together, these two complications compose the TONDA Gregorian Calendar: a timepiece resolutely geared towards astronomy and reproducing the Earth's revolutions around the Sun as well as in relation to the Moon.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection:  TONDA

Model: TONDA PF GREGORIAN CALENDAR Platinum Edition

 REFERENCE PFK999-2020001-200182

CASE
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950 with knurled bezel
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 11.1 mm
Crown: Ø 6 mm, screwed-in
Glass: ARunic anti-reflective sapphire
Case back: sapphire glass
Engraving on case back: serial number – “PARMIGIANI FLEURIER” – “Edition Limitée de 3 pièces”
Water resistance: 100 m
DIAL
Material: Platinum 950
Finishing: sandblasted
Indices: hand-applied 18ct gold rhodium-plated appliques
Moon phase: blue aventurine
HANDS 
Hours and minutes: 18ct gold rhodium-plated skeletonized delta-shaped
Calendar and seconds: rhodium-plated steel
MOVEMENT
AUTOMATIC WINDING MANUFACTURE
MOVEMENT WITH RETROGRADE GREGORIAN
CALENDAR AND PRECISION MOON PHASE
Caliber PF339
Total dimensions Ø 30.6 mm, thickness: 5.5 mm
Decoration:  Côtes de Genève, , beveled edges, Perlage
Oscillating weight:  platinum, skeletonized, polished and sandblasted
Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, retrograde gregorian calendar and precision moon
phase
Power reserve 50 hours
Frequency 28’800 Vph (4Hz)
Jewels 32
Nb ofcomponents 359
BRACELET
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Closure: 18ct white gold folding clasp

 🔰Limited edition  -  Unique 3 piece

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 PF XIALI CALENDAR COMPLETE CHINESE CALENDAR

The intercalary or leap month appears according to precise rules and is assigned the number of the month that preceded it. The calculations are complex but serve to keep track of the seasons and to set the Chinese New Year at the arrival of spring, which varies between 21 January and 19 February in our calendar. 

Unlike the Gregorian calendar, which names the months and numbers the years, the Chinese calendar names the lunar years and numbers the months. The names of the years are repeated on a sexagesimal (60-year) cycle, but the calendar including dates, days and months is calculated on the basis of astronomical observations and naturally varies. It is therefore impossible to make a Chinese perpetual calendar. Parmigiani Fleurier's creation goes as far as possible in offering the most complete form of the Chinese calendar. The numbering system of the time units is based on the combination of a decimal cycle with the ten Heavenly Stems and a duodecimal cycle with the twelve Earthly Branches. 

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The ten Heavenly Stems serve to designate the diagonal directions, the seasons, the elements – water, wood, metal, fire and earth – the planets, as well as colours, flavours and virtues. The twelve Earthly Branches correspond to the signs of the zodiac: each of the twelve Branches is represented by an animal, which designates the years of the sexagesimal cycle and will influence the destiny and character of human beings born in that year.

A WEALTH OF COMPLEX INFORMATION:

All this corresponds to a wealth of complex information, which Parmigiani Fleurier has succeeded in condensing on a dial. Hours and minutes, display of the month and its numbering, an additional month when applicable (displayed every three years), short month (29 days) or long month (30 days), twenty-four solar terms corresponding to twenty-four 15° divisions of the Sun's path along the ecliptic (the Sun's trajectory seen from the Earth), year hand and name, indication of the animal and the elements with alternating colours depending on whether it is Yin or Yang, numbering of the days and moon phases. All the displays are quickly adjustable via the various correctors located on the two sides of the case middle. 

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It conceals an extremely sophisticated mechanism serving to display this information in classic Chinese characters. As the Chinese calendar is not cyclical, the complication is mechanically programmed and covers a twelve-year period by means of a cam system. At the end of these twelve years, the watch must be reset for a new equivalent period. During this period, all information is provided without any need for intervention, as long as the watch does not stop. If the watch does stop, corrections are made simply by correcting the day and month number, with a rapid corrector where necessary to facilitate corrections of long periods.

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The highly complex Chinese calendar is a combination of a solar and a lunar calendar, calculated separately and then synchronised. How is this done? By adding an extra lunar month also called a leap or intercalary month. This 13th month is added approximately every three years to bring the two cycles back in sync. Finally, the Chinese calendar divides the solar year into 24 terms, or breaths, which symbolise the agricultural calendar. 

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection:  TONDA

 

Model: TONDA PF Xiali Calendar COMPLETE CHINESE CALENDAR

 REFERENCE PFK999-2020001-200182

CASE
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Dimensions: Ø 42mm, thickness: 12.2 mm, crown: Ø 6 mm
Glass: ARunic anti-reflective sapphire
Case back: sapphire glass
Engraving on case back: serial number – “PARMIGIANI FLEURIER” – “Edition Limitée de 3 pièces”
Water resistance: 100 m
DIAL
Color: Platinum 950
Finishing: sandblasted
Indices: 18ct gold rhodium-plated appliques
Moon phase: blue aventurine
HANDS 
Hours and minutes: 18ct gold rhodium-plated skeleton delta-shaped
Seconds and calendar: rhodium-plated steel
MOVEMENT
COMPLETE CHINESE CALENDAR, MOON PHASE INDICATOR
Caliber PF008
Total dimensions Ø 32.6 mm, thickness: 5.3 mm
Decoration Côtes de Genève, beveled bridges
Oscillating weight 22-ct rose gold
Functions: Complete Chinese calendar and precision moon phase
Power reserve 54 hours
Frequency 28’800 Vph (4Hz)
Jewels 45
Nb ofcomponents 353
BRACELET
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Closure: 18ct white gold folding clasp

 🔰Limited edition  -  Unique 3 piece

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 PF HIJRI PERPETUAL CALENDAR ISLAMIC

The origins of this timepiece now appearing in a wristwatch version date back to 2011, with the launch of a table clock inspired by a pocket watch displaying an Arabic calendar that was restored in the Manufacture's workshops. The expertise developed led the brand to develop the Hijri Islamic calendar in wristwatch form, a feat of miniaturisation that won the 2020 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) Innovation Prize.

CALCULATION OF ISLAMIC TIME:

In the Islamic world, the calendar is based on lunar cycles. The Islamic or Hijri lunar calendar consists of 12 months of 29 or 30 days – depending on the phase of the moon – and is used to identify Muslim festivals. 

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Known as the Hegira (meaning “flight), the prophet Muhammad’s escape in 622 CE from Mecca to Medina (now in Saudi Arabia) is the starting point for the calculation of Islamic time, representing the moment when the first Muslim community was founded.

ALL CULTURES AND CIVILISATIONS:

Compared to the first version, the TONDA PF Hijri Perpetual Calendar has evolved to reflect the Maison’s new aesthetic codes. The case and knurled bezel are in 950 platinum, the platinum bracelet is seamlessly integrated and the sandblasted platinum dial bears solid gold hour-markers, logo and hands. 

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In terms of content, the movement designed and developed by Parmigiani Fleurier remains identical to that of the model awarded the GPHG prize in 2020. The complete calendar information shows the hours, minutes, date in Arabic numerals, the name and length of the months in Arabic calligraphy, the days of the month and the years. The ninth month is marked in green on the counter at 3 o'clock. It also displays the double moon phase for both Northern and Southern hemispheres.

THE MUSLIM CALENDAR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ISLAMIC ERA:

The Hijri calendar, which is the Islamic calendar, has some connection to nomadic traditions, but its primary basis is religious. The calendar is based on the lunar cycles and was first introduced in 622 CE, when the Prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina. This migration, known as the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic era and the start of the Hijri calendar. 

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However, it is also worth noting that the use of a lunar calendar was common among pre-Islamic Arab tribes, including nomadic ones, who used the moon to track the passage of time and the seasons for practical purposes such as knowing when to move their herds.

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The world of horological complications is virtually infinite. One of them is truly universal, rooted in every culture and mirroring civilisations: the calendar function. Parmigiani Fleurier presents the TONDA PF Hijri Perpetual Calendar or Islamic calendar.

“The history of watchmaking is closely intertwined with
the history of human civilization, reflecting the advances in
technology and the changing cultural values of different eras.
Therefore, watchmaking is a form of cultural expression, as
Calendars are the mirror of civilizations. They represent for
Parmigiani a mark of multicultural respect, insofar as we
want to translate the particularities of a society by creating
a watch that integrates all the information allowing us to
understand its organization and its history”.

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Model: TONDA PF XIALI Calendar ISLAMIC PERPETUAL CALENDAR Edition 

 REFERENCE PFK999-2020001-200182

CASE
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Dimensions: Ø 42mm, thickness: 12.2 mm, crown: Ø 6 mm
Glass: ARunic anti-reflective sapphire
Case back: sapphire glass
Engraving on case back: serial number – “PARMIGIANI FLEURIER” – “Edition Limitée de 3 pièces”
Water resistance: 100 m
DIAL
Color: Platinum 950
Finishing: sandblasted
Indices: 18ct gold rhodium-plated appliques
Moon phase: blue aventurine
HANDS 
Hours and minutes: 18ct gold rhodium-plated skeleton delta-shaped
Seconds and calendar: rhodium-plated steel
MOVEMENT
COMPLETE CHINESE CALENDAR, MOON PHASE INDICATOR
Caliber PF008
Total dimensions Ø 32.6 mm, thickness: 5.3 mm
Decoration Côtes de Genève, beveled bridges
Oscillating weight 22-ct rose gold
Functions: Complete Chinese calendar and precision moon phase
Power reserve 54 hours
Frequency 28’800 Vph (4Hz)
Jewels 45
Nb ofcomponents 353
BRACELET
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Closure: 18ct white gold folding clasp

🔰Limited edition  -  Unique 3 piece

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Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA PF Tourbillon Platinum

Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA PF Tourbillon Platinum Automatic 2023

IMMERSION INTO
THE HEART OF PURISM

Parmigiani Fleurier is rewriting watchmaking in its two-pronged quest for purism and innovation. In contrast with the mainstream, Parmigiani Fleurier speaks the language of rarity, meaning, form and content, traits shared by all the new models presented at Watches and Wonders 2023. 

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Through world premieres, a celebration of platinum and an exceptional trilogy, Parmigiani Fleurier is breaking new ground, yet remains faithful to the founding spirit of the company and its fundamental hallmarks of purity, discretion, and minimalist sophistication, all driven by the desire to innovate in order to make watches lifelong companions. Enthusiasts are invited to embark on an initiatory journey, one that began last year and which places the demand for purity at the core of the creative process with one sole objective: horological complications revisited to ensure user friendliness.

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Good things come in pairs! 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 TONDA PF Minute Rattrapante is not the brand’s only high-impact new release. Platinum, the rare and precious metal that has gradually become one of Parmigiani Fleurier’s signatures, has notably been chosen for the iconic TONDA PF Micro- Rotor – a glowing tribute to the model that laid the foundations of the new collection – as well as the TONDA PF Tourbillon, which this year features a platinum dial tinged with Milano blue.

TONDA PF FLYING TOURBILLON
DISCRETION AT ITS FINEST

Platinum rules once again, in a version combining the precious metal with one of the supreme Haute Horlogerie complications: the Tourbillon. Following on from the 25-piece limited edition presented in 2022, this year's TONDA PF Tourbillon features a special characteristic: its platinum dial appears in a Milano blue shade that is a favourite with Parmigiani Fleurier. The choice of colours highlights the generous opening at 7 o'clock, providing a chance to admire the magic of the perpetual moving regulating organ. 

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This new interpretation remains true to the brand spirit, magnificently expressing the stylistic vision of the Maison and its approach distinguished by discreet yet strong added value. TONDA PF Tourbillon embodies perfect purity. Concealed beneath the Milano blue dial, the calibre developed within the Watchmaking Centre – a flying tourbillon movement with automatic winding via a platinum micro-rotor – reveals some of its 207 components through the transparent case back. 

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 Designed, produced and assembled by the artisans of the Watchmaking Centre, 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. 

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The TONDA PF Flying Tourbillon belongs to the exclusive circle of iconic timepieces, a stature accentuated by its finely knurled and polished platinum bezel.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: TONDA

Model: TONDA PF Tourbillon Platinum

REFERENCE  PFH921-2020002-200182

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MOVEMENT
Calibre PF517 – AUTOMATIC WINDING MANUFACTURE
MOVEMENT WITH FLYING TOURBILLON AND PLATINUM 950 MICRO-ROTOR
Power reserve: 48 hours
Frequency: 21,600 Vph (3 Hz)
Jewels: 29
No. of components: 207
Total diameter: 32.6 mm
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Decoration: Circular Côtes de Genève, Perlage
Oscillating weight: platinum 950 micro-rotor, Grain d’Orge guilloché

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CASE
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950 with knurled bezel
Diameter: 42 mm
Thickness: 8.6 mm
Crown: Ø 4.3 mm, screwed-in
Glass: ARunic anti-reflective sapphire
Case back: sapphire glass
Engraving on case back: serial number – “PARMIGIANI FLEURIER”
Water resistance: 100 m
DIAL
Material: Platinum 950
Color: Milano blue
Finishing: sandblasted
Indices: hand-applied 18ct gold rhodium plated appliques
HANDS
18ct gold rhodium-plated skeletonized delta-shape
FUNCTIONS
hours, minutes, seconds, tourbillon
BRACELET
Polished and satin-finished platinum 950
Closure: 18ct white gold folding clasp

🔴 Price : incl. VAT 166,000 EUR 💰

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Parmigiani Fleurier – Les Roses Carrees – Grand Feu Rosa Mystica Edition

 

Parmigiani Fleurier – Les Roses Carrées – Collection Grand Feu Rosa Mystica Repeater White Gold Edition – Unique Piece 2023

When you love, there is no counting! And yet they can be counted in tens, hundreds or even thousands. All those hours spent shaping the material, a relationship of total fusion between the craftsman and the single masterpiece that will come to life. Parmigiani Fleurier is proud to present Rosa Mystica, the latest in a series of five unique pieces in the “Grand Feu Collection”, introduced in December 2022 with the Rosa Celeste and its blue Grand Feu enamel.

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The time has come for the red rose to bloom. On this new creation signed by the Maison, a magistral red Grand Feu enamel adorns the dial and the engraved “Rose Carrée” on the back of this exceptional novelty. This miracle of red fire is embellished with a natural garnet cabochon on the 18-ka rat white gold case, adding finesse to the magnificence of the hand engraving. 

Rosa Mystica and the other creations in the Grand Feu collection are an ode to traditional craftsmanship. The enamellers, engravers, chain makers and many others are artists, they are the “golden hands” devoted to the Maison Parmigiani Fleurier that shape and tame the material with mastery.

Parmigiani Fleurier has always been committed to preserving this extraordinary art through its timepieces. Rosa Mystica is a magnificent new testimony to this.

Collector favourites

Between the petals of this horological flower, Parmigiani Fleurier has concealed a manually wound minute repeater calibre with cathedral gongs. Its skeletonization and beveling bring together the best of Parmigiani Fleurier‘s watchmaking expertise and craftsmanship in a unique and poetic piece.

Lineage of roses

Rosa Mystica and Rosa Celeste carry all the hallmarks of La Rose Carrée pocket watch. With Rosa Celeste, these details have been taken to a higher level of wearability and simplicity, making these pieces unique. This model also heralds a series entirely dedicated to the celebration of handmade watchmaking craftsmanship according to Parmigiani Fleurier. “Les Roses Carrées” will be the name and the thread that ties these pieces together. 

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In this execution, the watch case is mounted on a hand-sewn alligator leather strap in red, the reverse side of which is also in alligator leather. With a diameter of 42 mm, the case is cut from white gold blocks. The bezel, lugs and caseband are hand-engraved with the La Rose Carrée motif. These notches are engraved with a chisel into the hard surfaces of the metal, one inside the other in an algorithmic progression. This work requires extreme precision, an impressive investment of time, and a steady hand that is ensured by years of experience.

The “Grand Feu” heritage

A hinge, located at 2 0’clock on the reverse side of these unique pieces, articulates the hunter caseback. Its outer face bears a large square fractal rose, also hand-engraved and covered with multiple layers of colored enamel. On its other side, these unique pieces feature a dial of solid white gold, with a surface engraved by hand. 

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Countless small carvings are made with immaculate regularity throughout the breadth and depth of the dial. Once the surface has been prepared, the enameler takes over and applies the same shade as on the hunter caseback, striving for an identical level of nuance and a play of light made possible by the depth of the work done by the artisanal engraver. 

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In both cases, on the dial and the cover, the technique used is Grand Feu enamel. Each gold element is first covered with enamel from crushed glass, ground finer in each layer, pigmented with metallic oxides and shaded with the color of the base metal.

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The firing process is carried out at a high temperature, 800 degrees Celsius, and must be controlled and repeated for each of the six layers applied. Each firing melts and glazes the enamel, but also runs the risk of re-firing the lower, already glazed layers. The precision of the temperatures, times, materials, and pigments plays a crucial role here.

Cathedra/gongs

To the movement’s extreme aesthetic refinement, Parmigiani Fleurier has added horological substance on an incomparable level. The noblest, most historic complication, the one most directly in line with Michel Parmigiani ls watchmaking practice as a restorer, was chosen to enliven Rosa Celeste: the minute repeater. But striking the hours, quarters and minutes on demand was not enough for these rare timekeeping roses.

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The gongs on which the sound is produced are cathedral gongs. Their exceptional length, spanning one and a half trips around the movement, brings a deeper, richer sound, a more sustained vibration and a more palpable intensity. In order to allow this potential to be fully expressed, the case has been carefully designed to optimize the sound of the movement.

Singing lessons

The movement is suspended in the case and the heel of the gongs is physically connected to the case by two screws. The caseback and case middle have been redesigned to create resonance pockets and to lighten the white gold mass. These two aspects help increase the acoustic quality of the chiming and its range. A final quality criterion is that the chiming sequence automatically skips dead time. Thus, at 3:19, the three chimes for the hour are immediately followed by a double chime for the quarter-hour and again, without silence, by up to four chimes for the minute.

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This device, which is unusual in the world of minute repeaters, is an indispensable characteristic for Parmigiani Fleurier. The Maison’s legendary criteria for ergonomics and directly perceptible quality are also reflected in a running time extended to 72 hours, i.e. three full days, another rarity for this complication.

Lighter than a petal

The movement, although hidden by a solid dial on one side and by its hunter caseback on the other, has nevertheless been the object of an artistic and extensive skeletonization. Usually made visible by the disappearance of the dial, it is here reserved for the owner and his or her closest confidants, a private and exclusive pleasure that speaks to the unique nature of Grand Feu Collection. The shape given to the bridges, the cut-out of their profile, and the size and extent of their openwork are artistic signatures, markers of aesthetic identity and indicators of the care given to execution and details.

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Parmigiani Fleurier has taken this approach to the extreme. The skeletonization of the PF355 caliber is reminiscent of that of the PF361 caliber, known as the Chronor, which was launched in 2016 inside a model that was at the time the pinnacle of the Parmigiani Fleurier collection. With its curves and counter-curves, harmonious inflections, the depth of the chamfers and its 114 inward and outward angles, Rosa Mystica and Rosa Celeste are the product of unparalleled achievement. The beveling, polishing and surface treatments are all done by hand. Thus, beauty, rarity and substance unite in the new Rosa Mystica.

“Grand Feu” enamel, alchemy and color

“In the work of enamels, each touch, each glaze, each pose, must return the object to the judgment of fire, each fire questioning the work in its totality. The more the fires follow one another, the greater the anguish. No repentance is possible, one must “ride the wave of success” every minute… In this sense, enamel is the most maximal of the Arts. “Jean Closset, Master Enameller

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It is by this quote that the Master Enameller, Vanessa Lecci, welcomes us to her workshop. She is the Master and artist behind the creation of les Roses Carrées “Grand Feu Collection”.

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“The greatest challenge for these pieces was to enhance and highlight the engraving of the object. And on the other hand to create a palette of colors that can best express the refinement of Parmigiani Fleurier creations.

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Some of these enamels belong to collections from the past century and are the last witnesses of a history that has disappeared forever.

Preserving this heritage, now a UNESCO World Heritage property, but also promoting reflection, creation and the arts related to the Haute Horlogerie have always been missions dear to Michel Parmigiani.

Rosa Mystica is a new and magnificent testimony to this commitment.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
 

Model: Les Roses Carrées Grand Feu Rosa Mystica  Gold Edition

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Reference: PFH991-2010001-300181

Pièce unique 1/1

Case
    Material: 18k white gold
    Finishing: polished and hand-engraved with “La Rose Carrée” pattern
    Diameter: 42 mm
    Thickness: 13.39 mm
    Crown: Ø 6.4 mm topped with cabochon-cut natural sapphire
    Crystal: Anti-reflective sapphire
    Caseback: sapphire crystal
    Hunter caseback: 18k white gold, hand-engraved with “La Rose Carée” pattern, “Grand feu” enamel, interior engraving, “Rosa Celeste”, “PF” seal and Michel Parmigiani’s signature.
    Caseback engraving serial number, “Parmigiani Fleurier,” Swiss Made, and « Pièce unique »
    Water resistance: 10 m
Dial and hands
    Finishings: hand-engraved with chiseled pattern
    Color: Amaranth “Grand feu” enamel
    Indices: hand-applied, 18k gold, rhodium-plated appliques
    Hours and minutes: 18k gold, rhodium-plated, skeletonized, delta-shaped hands
Movement
    PF355 – Manual winding with Minute Repeater on Cathedral gongs, continuous Chiming sequence
    Diameter: 30 mm
    Thickness: 6.55 mm
    Frequency: 21,600 Vph (3 Hz)
    Number of jewels: 35
    Number of components: 392
    Power reserve of 72 hours
    Finishings: Côtes de Genève, openworked bridges, hand-beveling and circular graining 
Functions/Indications
    Hour, minutes, minute repeater
Strap and buckle
    Red wine alligator leather strap, double-sided, hand-stitched
    Buckle: 18k white gold pin buckle with hand-engraved “La Rose Carée” pattern

Limitation
Limited Edition to Unique only 1 pieces

🔴 Price : incl. VAT 600.000 CHF 💰

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