I've never seen this complication before: Parmigiani Tonda PF Minute Rattrapante

[Music] this watch has a complication I've never seen before and that's because it never existed before that's pretty cool on its own that after 200 years of watch making there's still Innovations but maybe even cooler is that it's both new and it's kind of useful like you can put 69 turbon on a watch and say it's never been done before and we're all very impressed but functionally multiple turbon exist to show people how much money and how little taste you have but this minute rotron complication makes some sense and for those of you new to watches first you should probably not be here and I'm concerned for your future mental health and second a complication in watchmaking is basically a time telling or timekeeping feature showing the day or date on a watch that's a complication a hand that displays a second time zone that's a complication why people buy watches that's complicated that's not a complication and what I like about this parani Tonda PF minute rri Pont is that this new complication is visually uncomplicated and let me back up parmesan is a Swiss watchmaker a relatively small brand that was founded over 20 years ago by watchmaker Michelle parmesan in those two decades the brand has made a lot of interesting mostly dressy High horology watches also in that time a lot of big names in watchmaking have worked with or for parmesan and I'm not going to go into all that but my point is that people who know watches know and respect parmesan and that includes the king of England King what's his name wears a Parmesan a lot maybe it's the only watch he wears I like that the dude could wear any brand and he chose one that's kind of under the radar or it was under the radar because lately I think parani has become more widely known I mean I've done a few videos on parani watches so we can only assume that I'm responsible for the Brand's increased success money please some facts about this watch it's a 40 mm wide case that's 10.7 mm thick and about 47 mm long it has 60 M of water resistance and it weighs about 146 G the case and bracelet are made of steel but the fancy coin Edge bezel is made of 950 Platinum $31,800 is the list price for this watch on my 7in wrist this does feel kind of sporty the size and the weight on my 7in wrist I like this 40 mm diameter on my 7in wrist I think something like 38 mm would work on my 7-in wrist a smaller size would come off a little dressier on my 7in wrist and I don't think that's what parmesan is after right now on my 7in wrist parmesan has been increasingly focused on more sporty watches with the Tonda watches more sporty they're not sports watches to my eyes but they have bracelets and they have water resistance and there are several steel references in 2022 parmesan introduced the Tona PF GMT rotron and last year the brand introduced this minute rotr pant both of the rotron watches have totally new complications never been done before at any kind of scale so rotron the French translates to English as old pants wait wait yes no hold on ah it translates to English as something like catch up or to catch up up until recently rotron in watchmaking has only referred to a split seconds chronograph complication it's called a rotron because there's a function to have one chronograph hand catch up to the other apparently that's really hard to do mechanically so rotron chronograph watches are super expensive but this rotron watch is not a rotron chronograph this is a new kind of rotron what makes this new parmesan watch a rotron watch is how the additional minutes hand gets reset there's a rose gold Pusher on the crown which rotron the additional hand the hand catches up with its dearly missed friend twin sibling hand this is the rotron part but is that gold hand even a minute's hand here's what I mean on this watch the additional minutes hand doesn't track time I mean it doesn't rotate once you set it it stays there still unmoving like when someone suggests that I get exercise it took me a moment to understand the why behind this complication because the despite my good mouth word talking I'm not the brightest balance in the workshop first and this is cool you can set the minute's hand in two ways by the minute or in five minute increments there are two pushers on the left side of the case that move the hand in bigger or smaller jumps and then like I said you can rot Trant the hand with The Pusher on the crown so why what it do what do what do for well basically this works like a very elegant countdown or even count up bezel need to leave the house at a certain Time advance the minute's hand to that time and you can watch as the time advances towards that goal and past it because your child won't put on shoes why won't she put on shoes have to remember to take the lasagna out of the oven in 40 minutes set the minutes hand to 40 minutes from now but honestly I like the edges a little crispy so make it 45 minutes I've been using the watch like this and I'm surprised by how useful it is and also how much more I like this than a timing bezel maybe it's the Simplicity of the design but I actually think it's the legibility it's easy easier for me to read everything from the dial rather than looking all the way to the bezel and you can also kind of use this to track elapsed time I'm not sure it was designed for this but if you advance the minute hand 60 Minutes to be all the way back in line with the current time the rron minute hand will stay stationary until you hit the rron button so you can easily use it to track how long something is taking like how long it takes before you unsubscribe from this channel however long it takes it took too long the watch is powered by the handsome in-house caliber pf52 it has 48 Hours of power reserve and a micro rotor in 22 karat rose gold yeah it's a looker parmesan knows how to finish and design a movement and not just visually design it but architecturally a micro rotor helps keep the movement thin and avoids obstructing this machine like with a bigger rotor weight on the micro rotor is the glandor guet texture that's also on the dial nice design consistency here is it as impressive as me wearing socks that match my shirt no but it's pretty good the dial is simple elegant clean and that's the whole thing with this watch according to parmesan CEO that's the goal of these watches elegant function and I say mission accomplished now stylistically this is still too dressy for me but I recognize that I'm not the target audience for this watch not economically or intellectually you see it is possible to like and respect a watch without needing to own it it's took me years of fiscal irresponsibility to learn that it's just really cool to see a simple Technical and most importantly useful Innovation and watchmaking now that parani has two Innovative rotron watches there might be a third I don't know I don't have the imagination to think of another one but I'd love to see even another take on these 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Published: Wed Feb 28 2024