This one’s not new new – information about it has been circulating since late last year.
However, more details did emerge during SIHH, and it’s such an interesting piece – telescopic hands! – that we felt a quick update was in order.
30 pieces will be made in rose gold and 30 in white gold.
Each will be a rather large 52.2mm and house an enamel dial.
As alluded to, and as you see from the picture, the main feature of this watch – inspired by early 19th century British watchmakers Vardon & Stedmann – are telescopic hands that get longer or shorter as they rotate around the oval dial.
Movement is the Swiss automatic PF in-house caliber 111 with 269 components and an 8 day power reserve.
As you’d expect, this is not a ‘cheapie’ watch :-)
MSRP is $95,000.
There’s something both alien and retro about this Parmigiani Toric Minute Repeater – I really like it.
This colourful and lengthily titled piece from Parmigiani has been produced to celebrate a new partnership with the Brazilian Football Confederaton – the governing body of football in Brazil.
Wow, check out this bad boy!
In a world premiere, Parmigiani has successfully developed a 90° time setting system – the dial is positioned perpendicular to the display axis (hours/minutes) – by integrating a system of double pinions with bevel gearing. Like the complete movement, this unique and complex mechanical system, which allows the time to be displayed on the side, has been entirely designed and created in the workshops of the Fleurier manufacture (VMF).
[Press Release] In both its pure, elegant aesthetic and its exceptionally refined profile, the new Tonda 1950 meets the highest standards in terms of comfort and readability: a return to the basics which define a true classic.
[Press Release] Never before in the history of watchmaking has a Hegirian mechanical continuous calendar been invented by a Swiss Haute Horlogerie company.
