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A sculptural object created through the artistic interlacing of openworked platinum. The Tonda PF Skeleton 2024. An open-air mechanism. Born of a saga that began two years ago, the Tonda PF Skeleton conquered the watchmaking world with its steel and 18-carat rose gold versions. Now, to this exceptional family, this new all-platinum version brings an extra touch of nobility to an already prestigious heritage. With the Tonda PF Skeleton Collection, Parmigiani Fleurier has not just created a watch. It has rethought the age-old art of skeletonization, projecting it into a new era with a resolutely modernist approach. The movement of the Tonda PF Skeleton PlatinumS is revealed in all its complexity, offering a transparency reminiscent of contemporary architectural masterpieces. Each component is designed to play with light, transforming the mechanism into a visual dance where solids and voids intermingle. It owes much of its allure to the movement’s openwork, which delicately balances materials and transparencies. The technique involves opening up the movement as much as possible, allowing the eye to see into the inner workings, while ensuring that the structural elements retain sufficient rigidity. The artistic openwork of Tonda PF Skeleton Platinum reveals the movement’s life and architecture, while preserving its balance and volume. Between Fullness and Emptiness The artisans at Parmigiani Fleurier have expertly played the solid spaces off the opened elements to bring light into the very heart of the PF 777 calibre. This delicate latticework, meticulously hand bevelled, draws the purist’s eye to the beating centre of the mechanism, allowing it to apprehend some of the mysteries of its kinematics. To ensure maximum lightness, the platinum oscillating weight bears the brand logo embedded in sapphire crystal. It is visible through the transparent caseback, which itself has been artistically worked into a masterpiece that blends in with the uncluttered structure’s 187 components. The oscillations generated by the wearer’s movements help to rewind the barrel, which is also openworked, revealing the slow contractions and relaxations of the mainspring driving its oscillator at a rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour. PARMIGI ANI FLURI ER : Tonda PF Skel eton Pl at inum 178 | Simply Abu Dhabi