 The
new tourbillon, sober and elegant, honors the virtuosity and skill of the watchmaker,
given its highly technical production. Its cage, visible on both sides of the
movement, performs one rotation every 30 seconds, giving greater constancy of its settings.
The
Parmigiani Fleurier Tourbillon is rendered rare and unique by the pierced aperture of its
movement. The bottom plate reveals, on the dial side, the entire geartrain of the mechanism
and the double barrel. Several openings have also been made on the bridges, including
on the barrel bridge, power-reserve bridge, lower intermediate mobile bridge and ratchet bridge.
The
watch is a sort of open window on a form of watchmaking art, and as such is finished with the
same high level of care. Each piece is hand-finished, including all the movement’s components,
which are chamfered and jeweled over their entire length.
Fully
visible, the beauty of the movement is enhanced by a PVD coloring technique on the pierced
bottom plate and bridges.
These form a mosaic of metallic colors never achieved previously.
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These new, intrinsic pink, purple, light brown and grey colors arise out of Parmigiani’s
own complex laboratory research.
The PVD
coloring technology, far more stable than electroplating, enables the component to receive
a coat of metal on both its sides through the introduction of a reactive gas into a vacuum
atmosphere, aiding the evaporation, transport and condensation of the color on the parts.
Only
a transparent sapphire dial could show off all this work. But, like the rest of the watch,
the dial execution is extremely original, formed by a layer-by-layer electro-deposition technique.
For the aesthetic harmony to be complete, the very "metallic" beauty of the movement
is complemented by brilliant rhodium deposition on the indexes, the timer and the powerreserve
indication.
Produced
in thirty units in platinum 950, the Kalpa Tourbillon Chiaroscuro birthday model celebrates
the combination of traditional watchmaking art and avant-garde technology.
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