Parmigiani Tonda Metrographe Now Offered with Rose-Gold Case & Blue Dial
Parmigiani Fleurier revamped its sport-luxury chronograph watch, the Tonda Metrographe, in 2017, adding a motorsports-inspired tachymeter scale around the dial and redesigning the subdial arrangement for greater symmetry and legibility. This year, the brand has presented a new version sporting one of today’s most popular watch-world combinations, a deep blue dial and an 18k rose gold case.
The watch features powdered rose-gold details and rose-gold hands for the subdials and central chronograph seconds counter. The snailed decoration underneath the hour track and inside the subdials ? achieved by a chasing tool that removes tiny amounts of material ? adds depth to the dial with its concentric circular motif.
The borders of the figure eight formed by the 9 o?clock and 6 o?clock ? a design hallmark of the original Tonda Metrographe ? are in the modern version slightly raised rather than defined by a flat layer of luminescent coating, and the red numeral ?1? in the curved date window at 12 o?clock hearkens back to earlier versions of the model. The manufacture’s skeletonized Delta-shaped hour and minute hands are domed and coated with luminous material. The running seconds are tallied on a double-sided hand on a subdial at 3 o?clock, a type of display first used on the Tonda Chronor Anniversaire model that debuted in commemoration of Parmigiani’s 20th anniversary in 2016. Elapsed times are tallied on the 12-hour counter at 9 o?clock and the 30-minute cou...
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