Similar to the rest of the Tonda PF series, the Minute Rattrapante is a watch that boasts of a minimalist design, intended to blend in seamlessly with the personal style of its wearer who values aesthetics.
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Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante

Parmigiani Fleurier took its winning GMT Rattrapante idea and applied it to the minute hand in the aptly named Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante. The presence of three pushers here should alert you to hidden complexities in what the Parmigiani Fleurier manufacture is trying to accomplish. To begin with, there are two minute hands here (one in rhodiumised white gold, the other in rose gold), and one behaves reasonably, tracking the minutes as it should. The other, the rose gold hand, does something never seen in watchmaking as far as we can tell ? it tracks ahead of the standard minute hand by increments of one or five minutes. This effectively allows it to act as a countdown timer, waiting for the standard minute hand to catch up. The pusher at 8 o?clock advances this hand by five minutes while the pusher at 10 o?clock advances it by one minute. 
The above description shows how the watch might easily be used to mark elapsed minutes, but what is the pusher on the crown for then" It returns the rose gold hand back under the standard minute hand, where it moves in lockstep until called forth again. Now, this is the sort of complication that must either leav...