Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Hémisphères Rétrograde Watch Hands-On

Introduced about two years ago at SIHH 2017, the Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Hémisphères Rétrograde watch line has been the brand's finest foray into the increasingly desirable market of high-end travel watches to date What makes the Toric Hémisphères Rétrograde stand out is that it allows the second time zone to be set to the minute by a dedicated crown at 2 o'clock Assuming not everyone wants to wear a watch with the dial information density of a world timer, the vast majority of travel watches with GMT or dual time zone functions allow the wearer to adjust the second time zone in one-hour increments.

We all know that there are thirteen places globally that are in time zones with 30 or 45 minute time differences from Coordinated Universal Time Once you set the time and push the crown back in, the second time zone automatically "Re-indexes" itself to run in tandem with the local time with whatever time interval the wearer sets The movement here dictates the size of the watch, which, at 428mm-wide and 119mm-thick is larger than most Parmigiani Fleurier pieces, due to the addition of the second time zone module.

The Toric knurled bezel was found on Michel Parmigiani's first watch concept back in 1996, and that same artisan still does the knurling by hand on each and every Toric watch to this day. . Source