Independents

This is my latest, the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda GT Black (ref. PFC910-0000210-B00182). It was launched this July and there are 250 of them. You can buy them directly from the brand's website or at one of its 150 sales points worldwide. Parmigiani will on...  

Looking forward to your review of it once you receive it!

I am tempted by another model in this collection. I don't remember the name, but I do remember it had some orange accents and an unfortunate abundance of words on the dial. Yours is nice and clean

That's a nice combination of complications, with orange-coloured font in the date and month windows. I know what you mean about the wordage, though. I don't understand why brands feel the need to clutter dials with 'Annual Calendar' next to the annual cal... 

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They all gotta go for me. MONTH is the most appalling... maybe they could add HOURS on the short hand and MINUTES on the long one! LOL. Too bad, I love the rest of the details on this watch.

That's not all. There's a new calibre: the PF701 running at 5Hz. This of course matches Zenith's El Primero, a movement that PF used for a time up to the mid-2000s. ...  

For a brand that is known for its artistic panache, the insistence on prosaic text is odd. Imagine Leonardo da Vinci writing the word "face" on the forehead of the Mona Lisa.

For an OCD person, I wished the brand name is located under the date window and not lopsided at 3pm.

There is enough space to put the brand name there, just like the Annual Calendar model.

Congrats on this new addition. I bet the backside doesn’t disappoint either. Best, Daniel

Now I need to go read about it. I look forward to some live shots when yours gets delivered.

Looking forward to seeing the pics of yours when it reaches you...

Very well made and much more refined than their other chronos. The text that gets criticized is very small in person, didn’t bother me at all. I gather the first sixty examples will have extra hand finishing to the movement accompanied by a letter from Mi... 

The text you mention was also an issue for me, and still is. I like detailed dials, such as on 1930s-1940s Omega-Tissot and Universal Geneve tricompaxes, or Breitling Navitimers. I'm less enthusiastic about extraneous detail. It's one reason I chose the G... 

your version is the one I inquired about but none available. Overall the annual calendar chronograph is very seductive in person though. Very.

They. will instead only release individual pieces to their sales point when a sale has been confirmed, one by one. PF produces about 6,000 watches a year in total, and the steel versions of these GTs are available in the low hundreds. There are 25 of the ...