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PARMIGIANI FLEURIER Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante
This new timepiece echoes last year ’ s GMT by performing a classic timing function with a new , simpler operation . Where that earlier model allowed for a hand-based display of GMT time , the new watch allows the user to check elapsed minutes on-demand via a second minute hand hidden directly under the primary minute hand .
Instead of turning a calibrated bezel ( as on a dive watch ), the user simply presses a pusher to move the second , gold hour hand to the desired time .
With the Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante , it ’ s the movement ’ s control of the second minute hand that performs the elapsed time display , not the user ’ s bezel-read calculation . The elapsed time is indicated when the gold minute hand reaches the primary minute hand and slides directly underneath it .
To use the function , the wearer can move the rose gold hand in either fiveminute increments ( via the pusher at 8 ’ o ’ clock ) or one-minute increments ( via the pusher positioned at 10 o ’ clock ). Once the two hands meet and superimpose , the period of time to be measured will have elapsed .
At any time , the wearer can return the gold hand to its position hidden underneath the rhodium-plated primary minute hand by pressing the crown-integrated pusher , in a similar way to the splitseconds function .
As on last year ’ s Tonda PF GMT Rattrapante , this new hand-based time counting function is only visible when activated . The movement that makes these functions possible , new caliber PF 052 , is powered by an elegant rose-gold micro-rotor and is fully visible from the back of the 40mm steel case . As on all Tonda PF models , the knurled bezel is platinum .
The functionality here is of course paired with the watchmaker ’ s high-end workmanship and finishing . These include a hand-cut Grain d ’ Orge guilloché dial in a sand grey color and 18-karat gold hands and markers .
The new Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante is an ingenious addition to Parmigiani Fleurier ’ s new series of hand-based complication displays . Price : $ 30,600 .
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