Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Alta Rosa Watch Review

Hi, this is Tim of the 1916 Company. Welcome and thanks for logging on. Today, we are looking at a 2026 release from Parmigiani Fleurier. This is the Tanda PF Automatic Steel Platinum Alta Rosa with a beautiful Granduche or barleycorn guilloche dial. This is a smaller watch, but small is mighty. A watch comprised primarily of stainless steel, but with a knurled platinum bezel. The timepiece is 36.1 millimeters in diameter, 8.9 millimeters thick. Now, if we just measure the lugs, lug to lug, it's going to be 41.5 millimeters across the wrist and the total distance with the end links of the bracelet across the wrist, it is 47.3 millimeters. Now, the watch is smaller. It's probably best described as sort of a midsize variant. I can actually fit it on my wrist just fine. I'd be happy to wear a watch of this size. There are a lot of folks with a taste for more traditional sizes, but also a lot of our ladies in the hobby now more and more of them all the time have smaller wrists. And so something like this is going to be a perfect match. It is quite thin. So though it's a hundred meter water resistant sports watch, you can see in profile, especially with the slope, that platinum bezel, it will slide easily underneath the cuffs. This watch does work just fine on a man's wrist, but I would say, even if your wrist is 13 and a half centimeters circumference, this is going to fit. And again, my wrist is 16 for reference. Let's take a quick look at this watch in detail. The bracelet is a handsome piece. You can see it's integrated though, perhaps not in the same fashion as some others as it is held in place with spring bars. So if you wished, you could remove the bracelet using strap tools. Taking a look now, you can see how the long running teardrop style lug, a time-honored Parmigiani motif flows into the taper of this bracelet. We have polish, we have satin, you can see we have intermediate links and primaries. In profile, you can see with removable links and they're fixed by screws. You're going to find this is easy to size up at home. You have quite a few of them, so you're going to get the right size. We've got a double folding clasp with twin trigger release. It's a sequential close with one side closing for the polished and media blasted Parmigiani Fleurier logo. Nice thing about Parmigiani is it features a number of dispersed companies within the Parmigiani group, such as Voucher Manufacture, and others that make everything from dials to hands, cases, clasps. So even though the companies themselves all have their own facilities, Parmigiani as a group is a fully integrated manufacturer, which is how you get all of these parts custom made for this watch from a truly integrated independent manufacturer. Now, of course, the case here features satin and profile polished highlights, the knurled and stepped platinum bezel, which adds satisfying mass to the watch. Because this is the 1916 company, you'll be happy to know that that is a 4.3 millimeter diameter crown. Details matter. It is a screw down crown too. So it is a hundred meters water resistant. The hands and the indices on the dial are polished and faceted, and they are actually made of white gold, but the rhodium plated so that they have a higher degree of luster to them. Same is true of the logo. You can see that barley corn style guilloche cut, the Alta Rosa dial, beautiful and unspoiled. There is no date window on this watch, and you can see how the minutes track outboard is beautifully stepped down. On the back, we have a Parmigiani movement based on their in-house Vache manufacture calibers. You can see the Vache star on the base plate next to the balance wheel. We've got a multiply finished, beveled, polished, and media blasted 22 karat gold rotor on a ceramic bearing at center, twin barrels, four Hertz, 29 joules, five position high horology adjustment, 60 hour power reserve. You can see it's got a free sprung balance with Inca block shock protection. All the timing adjustments done using variable inertia screws on the balance rim itself. And you'll notice that although the watch does not feature a seconds hand, if we go back to the reverse, when you pull out the crown, it does activate a hacking function. So you can stop the balance if you wish to do so, and you can see better here those opposing eccentric masses on the balance rim. They're used to adjust the fine timing increments. We have solarization on the ball bearing at center. We have polished screw heads, engine turning on the base plate. We have a credible degree of anglage on the bevels of the bridges, as well as in the jewel sinks, which are quite attractive. You can also see locating pegs, for example, for the balance cock. They're used to help locate the structure on the substructure. They're polished on their heads. The stripes are attractive. Parmigiani touts haute logerie finishing, and you can see solarization on the barrel covers as well. It's a 3.9 millimeter thick, and it's essentially a drop-in replacement for a 2892 size movement at 25.6 millimeters. And you can see that it is quite attractive and so worthy of this display case back. You can see the case back also has a little bit of a concave profile to it. All in all, an appealing watch. And if pricing of current versions of this watch, the same size, the same movement, same model, albeit with different dials, is anything to go by, pricing is likely to be in the vicinity of 21,400 Swiss francs. And again, this is a March 2026 release, so it is hot off the presses. Reach out to Tommaso at the1916company.com for purchase and pricing details.