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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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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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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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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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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“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
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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