A New Watch Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Retrograde Annual Calendar
Officially, the watch company Parmigiani Fleurier will present the novelty in January next year - at the famous Geneva exhibition SIHH. The watch Tonda Retrograde Annual Calendar is the first annual calendar, released by this brand of all the time - a sort of a little accomplishment, or even a very big technological advance.
The model Tonda Retrograde Annual Calendar has a round case, the plugs for strap setting of which give to it the rectangular shape. The watch case is made of white or pink gold. The case diameter is 40mm, thickness is 11mm and the water resistant is 30 meters. The watch dial at the same is available in two varieties: dark gray or silver with deltoid central hands inscribed with luminous compound.
The central hand with a red crescent on the end is a retrograde date indicator at the sector scale from 8 to 4 hours. The weekday shows at the slip round pointer, located at the "9 o'clock". At the mark 3 o’clock there is the hand pointer of the months, which is not filled with the names "January, February .... December", but the ordinal month numbers. That is even more convenient, because the dial does not disorder a lot of inscriptions, and we are all perfectly oriented in the order of the month. And at the mark of 6 o’clock is an indicator of lunar phases, calculated for northern and southern hemispheres at the same time – for that complication would not be useless on the whole half of the globe. The lunar indicator requires adjustments only every 120 years - that is, the present owner of this watch just should not have to worry about.
The case back of Tonda Retrograde Annual Calendar is transparent. Through it the automatic caliber PF 339, based at PF 331, can be seen.
The novelty is delivered on an alligator strap from Hermes.
The watch was highly original and at the same time elegant. Parmigiani Fleurier managed to do extremely convenient calendar, while not turning the watch dial into the complex device. The watch preserves conciseness and clarity. The idea of a lunar phase’s indicator is especially good one, which is for the modern man is more "romantic" than functional complication.
