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April 15 2024

Parmigiani Fleurier Presents The New Tonda PF Micro-Rotor No Date

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Parmigiani Fleurier, unlike what happened in last year’s edition of Watches And Wonders presenting 6 new Tonda watches, this year decided to bring just two additions to the collection, first the Tonda PF Micro-Rotor No Date and then the Tonda PF Skeletonized on which we will talk about in another article.

As the name suggests, the new Tonda now comes without a date window on the dial, leaving all the protagonism to the brand’s hand-placed barley-grain pattern, which here is painted in Golden Sienna. In it we can find applied rhodium-plated hour markers, 18k gold Delta hands semi-skeletonized with rhodium plated, a recessed minute track on the edges and also the brand logo applied to the noon mark.

The watch wears a 40mm round stainless steel case that features a highly polished finish, a platinum bezel with a fluted surface underneath, sapphire crystal on both sides, and a screw-down crown at 3 o’clock with the brand’s signature and 100m water resistance.

At its heart runs the automatic movement Caliber PF703 micro-rotor, which operates 21,600 Vph and offers up to 2 days of power reserve. It is decorated on the gold rotor with the same barley-grain guilloché that we find on the dial while the bridges are filled with Côtes de Genève.

Lastly, the watch comes attached to an integrated steel bracelet with a folding clasp and comes with a price tag of CHF 23,500.

Discover Parmigiani Fleurier’s 3rd-Generation Hijri Calendar with Viridian Green Dial

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Parmigiani Fleurier once again presents a new perpetual calendar that demonstrates the brand’s expertise in designing this type of complications for different cultures, the most recent being the Hijri Calendar which comes with an appealing green dial.

The Hijri, which corresponds to the Islamic calendar, was introduced for the first time by the Swiss watchmaker in 2019, having seen a second iteration three years later and which now sees the arrival of the third generation in the new Tonda PF Hijri Perpetual Calendar.

This complicated timepiece arrives in a round stainless steel case measuring 42mm wide by 11.20mm high, with a coin-edge bezel and a polished and satin finish. Anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screw-down crown at 3 o’clock with the brand’s signature and flanked by two recessed buttons that, together with another similar button on the other side of the case, serve to adjust the perpetual calendar, sapphire case back and 100m water resistance.

The textured dial comes in Viridian green with a Grain d’Orge hand-Guilloché background. Presenting a layout of four registers at 3-6-9-12 o’clock with inscriptions in white and to which they correspond respectively: the month in Arabic numerals with the Ramadan one highlighted painted in red, the phases of the moon in both hemispheres, the day of the month in Arabic numerals and finally the 30-year cycle of the Hijri Calendar. Gold rhodium-plated applied hour markers and skeletonized Delta hands, a rehaunt minute track and finally a center seconds hand.

Inside and at its heart operates the PF009 automatic movement decorated with Côtes de Genéve, made up of 310 components, which reaches 28,800 Vph and offers up to 2 days of power reserve.

The watch, which comes attached to a steel bracelet matching the case with a folding clasp, is now available for the price of CHF 62,500.

Introducing the New Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Sport Line

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Parmigiani Fleurier launches the new Tonda PF line that replaces the previous Tonda GT line, in total there are two new models that each unfold in two variants, which stand out for their more balanced and uncomplicated dials.

The new line is divided between the Tonda PF Sport Auto in a simpler version of time and date, and the Tonda PF Sport Chronograph which, as is quite evident, in addition to the time and date functions, also adds a chronograph function. As mentioned above, there are two variants for each of the new ones that translate into the case material with an option between stainless steel and rose gold.

And starting with the “simple” Tonda PF, the Sport Auto, comes in a 41mm diameter and 9.8mm thick case, the same fluted bezel but now with more notches, sapphire glass front and back, crown at three o’clock, 100m of water resistance and a black textile strap with Cordura-treated.

The white dial continues to come with the “Triangular” guilloché pattern, the same skeletonized hour and minute hands filled with black Super-LumiNova that also fill in the applied hour markers although now they come in shorter, the former small seconds “retrograde” gives now the turn to a centre seconds hand, and the same happens with the previous double date window at 12 o’clock which is now replaced by a single window at 6 o’clock, finally the past lettering of the brand at 3 o’clock disappears and the brand starts displaying only the logo applied at 12 o’clock.

Inside it comes equipped with the 179-component In-house Caliber PF770 that offers up to 60 hours of power reserve thanks to its two barrels.

The same formula applies to the new Tonda PF Sport Chronograph whose white dial with the same guilloche pattern, features the former three black counters although they now rotate 120° clockwise in their layout, and with the previous small seconds retrograde to giving way to a traditional running second, the double date window at 12 o’clock also disappears and in its place a date window appears at 4:30 and finally the previous lettering is also banned and in its place comes the applied logo of the brand.

On the outside, the Tonda PF Sport Chronograph wears a 42mm by 12.9mm case, also with the fluted bezel now showing more notches and with the same type of strap as the Auto version.

Inside is the powerful high-revving Caliber PF070 that dictates the rules, which is COSC certified and offers up to 60 hours of power reserve.

Our Opinion

Uncomplicated is the right word to describe the new Tonda PF line, which now appears neater and more elegant.

We think that Parmigiani perhaps missed the opportunity to go a little further by introducing, for example, a more moderate case size at least for the Sport Auto version, we also think that the date window with a black background would look better with a white background, although it remains to match the hue of the lume and the counters of the chronograph version.

The final balance tends to be positive, with most changes translating into significant improvements.

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