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PARMIGIANI FLEURIER La Rosa Celeste
Parmigiani Fleurier has expanded on the work done for the 2021 impressive uniquepiece La Rose Carrée pocket watch to create the unique-piece La Rosa Celeste , the first minute-repeater wristwatch within a new five-piece Les Roses Carrées collection .
You may recall that more than a year ago the luxury watchmaker celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with the release of the La Rose Carrée pocket watch , a unique minute repeater based on a Louis-Elysée Piguet caliber that had been restored in Parmigiani Fleurier ’ s workshops .
The new Rosa Celeste offers a 42mm white gold case that is hand-engraved with the same motif found on the 2021 pocket watch , and also includes a hunter ’ s caseback . The back and the chiseled dial of the new watch are finished with richly detailed blue grand feu enamel , a painstaking artisanal process that requires multiple high-temperature firings .
For the repeater , Parmigiani Fleurier chose to create cathedral gongs . Here , the chime has been optimized by a suspended movement and with the heel of the gongs physically connected to the case . In addition , watchmakers have redesigned the case to create resonance pockets and to lighten the white gold mass .
Unusually , Parmigiani Fleurier watchmakers have also devised a ringing sequence that automatically skips dead time . For example , 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 .
The beautifully skeletonized PF355 caliber also features an unusually long 72-hour power reserve . Parmigiani Fleurier mounts the new watch on a blue , hand-sewn alligator leather strap .
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