Horological Meandering

Parmigiani pictures

Hi all,

I first became aware of the Kalpagraph at SIHH Geneva last spring. I then saw SS and RG versions of the watch at a Bangkok AD later last year. Finally, I started to try on all the versions at an AD here in Hong Kong around December. I went from "interested" to "very interested" to "must have" within the last 9 months or so and a week ago it was time to strike! The RG version with black dial was my favoured choice for a long time but with time the more subtle (and unusual) combination of palladium case and grey dial completely won over my heart.

I love the somewhat strange looking dial with its not so common style for numerals and markers, the fantastic hands (also note the chrono seconds hand in the pics below), the forms and comfort of the Kalpa case and the legibility of chrono subdials and date display. The slanted "8" style of the subdials is in my eyes very "cool".

I hope some of you share my feelings. Here are the pics.

Cheers,

Johan