Watches and Wonders 2022 Day 5 Highlights
Our regular coverage of Watches & Wonders Geneva bows out with this fifth story. Stories from the fair will continue to pop up, now and then.
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Image: Tudor
By the time your fifth day at a watch fair rolls around, you know how well things are going when all the watches begin to blur into one another. Obviously, the Van Cleef & Arpels Planetarium Automaton cannot be mistaken for anything else, but the Tudor Black Bay Pro might be mistaken for a certain Explorer II, even though Rolex did not release anything in that area. Popularity, legacy and the weight of expectation weighs down everything at Watches & Wonders Geneva. But more on that later because we must open properly with a standout watch, one that is entirely unprecedented: the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF GMT Ratrapante.Â
No, this is not what it sounds like because the Fleurier-based watchmaking firm has not combined a flyback chronograph with the GMT function. In fact it is a straight-up two-time zone watch, but on demand. Using the pusher at 7 o?clock moves the white gold hour hand forward by one hour, while revealing a second hour hand in red gold. This red gold hand will remain tied to home time while the white gold hand now indicates local time; using the pusher at 3 o?clock gets the white gold hand gliding across the dial to once again take its position over the red gold hand, where both then move forward as normal. In p...
The post Watches and Wonders 2022 Day 5 Highlights appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Tudor
By the time your fifth day at a watch fair rolls around, you know how well things are going when all the watches begin to blur into one another. Obviously, the Van Cleef & Arpels Planetarium Automaton cannot be mistaken for anything else, but the Tudor Black Bay Pro might be mistaken for a certain Explorer II, even though Rolex did not release anything in that area. Popularity, legacy and the weight of expectation weighs down everything at Watches & Wonders Geneva. But more on that later because we must open properly with a standout watch, one that is entirely unprecedented: the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF GMT Ratrapante.Â
No, this is not what it sounds like because the Fleurier-based watchmaking firm has not combined a flyback chronograph with the GMT function. In fact it is a straight-up two-time zone watch, but on demand. Using the pusher at 7 o?clock moves the white gold hour hand forward by one hour, while revealing a second hour hand in red gold. This red gold hand will remain tied to home time while the white gold hand now indicates local time; using the pusher at 3 o?clock gets the white gold hand gliding across the dial to once again take its position over the red gold hand, where both then move forward as normal. In p...
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