Parmigiani Fleurier’s philosophy rests on a single conviction: true luxury is lived as a personal, understated, and cultured experience. The Maison calls this private luxury a form of refinement conceived for those who seek meaning and essential beauty. The Tonda PF rattrapante models embody this vision, marking the passage from Chronos, measured and imposed time, to Kairos, the time one chooses and inhabits as one’s own. In a world saturated with information and acceleration, they offer a pause, an invitation to reclaim the moment. Its principle, unmatched to this day, is one of remarkable clarity: two superimposed minute hands, invisible to one another until the function is activated. Through this ingenious construction, a highly sophisticated mechanism becomes intuitive, transforming complexity into elegance. Three pushers orchestrate the function: one at 10 o’clock to add a minute, another at 8 o’clock to add five, and the crown to reset. The rhodium-plated hand indicates real time, the rose gold hand marks the chosen interval, and when the two hands meet again, the granted time has elapsed. Everything unfolds with quiet elegance, the mechanism remains hidden, awakening only when summoned, allowing each wearer to extend a moment, slow the pace, or simply reclaim their own rhythm. In 2025, the TONDA PF Minute Rattrapante is reinterpreted with an Arctic Rose dial. Across pale rose and crystalline reflections, the hue shifts with light, revealing a subtle and ever-changing palette. Arctic Rose evokes a forgotten eighteenth-century tradition when rose was a colour of refinement for men, now reintroduced in masculine watchmaking to express intimate, contemporary, and versatile elegance.

Like all creations within the TONDA PF collection, the Minute Rattrapante Arctic Rose expresses an immediately recognisable aesthetic language, reserved for the initiated. The Grain d’Orge guilloché, a signature motif of the Maison since 1996, is executed here in an exceptionally fine pattern, its hypnotic regularity playing with light to lend the dial depth and movement. The hand-knurled platinum bezel discreetly captures reflections through micro-facets, visible only to connoisseurs, while fluid ergonomics ensure the case and bracelet are seamlessly integrated with hand-polished and satin-brushed finishes forming sculptural continuity. On the reverse, the PF052 calibre demonstrates the harmony between design purity and horological sophistication. This automatic movement integrates the world’s first Minute Rattrapante function within a slender 4.9 mm architecture and comprises 271 components finished to the highest standards: Côtes de Genève, perlage, and bevelling. The 22-carat rose gold micro-rotor, adorned with Grain d’Orge guilloché, echoes the dial, creating subtle harmony between exterior and interior. The TONDA PF Minute Rattrapante Arctic Rose opens a new dialogue with time, transforming precision into emotion and inviting its wearer to inhabit time intuitively, to understand and feel it. Born from Michel Parmigiani’s horological culture and refined by the Maison’s purist aesthetic, it is where intelligence meets emotion and beauty awakens awareness.