Reviewing The Most Special Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater Watch Replica

Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch

The good quality Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch replica looks like a thoroughly executed tribute to the early XIX century Perrin Freres pocket watch that the Swiss brand recently restored for the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation (EMSF.)

Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch
Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch

Instead of the usual round dial with a pair of hands that simply point at respective numerals on the hour and minute tracks, that beautifully crafted timekeeper featured a unique half-moon-style aperture that displayed 12 hour markers positioned on a short arc from around 9:30 to 2:30.

The mechanism included three planetary gears with four arms, each bearing its corresponding Arabic numeral from “1” to “12.” As you can gather from the pictures, each hand successively traveled the arc in precisely 60 minutes and then was replaced with the next hand in line.

To make the best fake Parmigiani Fleurier Toric watch even more complicated, they further equipped it with a Minute Repeater module with cathedral chimes.

As you can see on the picture below, the pocket watch in question could be just another 200-year-old artifact, if not its peculiar face.

 

Since Parmigiani’s watchmakers restored the watch almost from scratch, they got acquainted with the intricate mechanism from the 19th century and decided to re-introduce it as an add-on module for their Caliber PF321 movement using the 21st century technology.

Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch
Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater watch

It is not clear, how many pieces Parmigiani is going to build and how much money will ask for each of them, but I am positively sure that, with time, the beautiful gadget will become a highly sought-after collector’s item.

Although the styling cues were, too, partly outsourced from the Perrin Freres watch, with its knurled bezel and the geometric pattern on the dial, the Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Minute Repeater seems to be closer to the heavy and imposing Art-Deco than to playful and florid baroque.

The new timekeeper is presented in polished 18-carat white gold case. Being around 45 millimeters in diameter and almost 13 millimeters in height, the watch looks rather bulky, but that was probably done on purpose, since the timekeeper’s dimensions were clearly inspired by the Parmigiani replica pocket watch.