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Event: Night of the Proms · Automobile: Classic Motorshow · Highlight: Cannes Yachting Festival · Special: Watches
Event: Night of the Proms · Automobile: Classic Motorshow · Highlight: Cannes Yachting Festival · Special: Watches
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von antiken Uhren inspirierten <strong>–</strong> Modelle werden in den<br />
Werkstätten von Parmigiani Fleurier auch heute noch alte<br />
Zeitmesser sowie ausgefallene Stücke wie Fabergé-Eier<br />
und andere exquisite mechanische Kunstgegenstände restauriert.<br />
Ein Beispiel hierfür ist die Schnupftabakdose mit<br />
Singvogel der Frères Rochat.<br />
Parmigiani Fleurier beweist, dass außerordentliche Qualitätsarbeit<br />
und perfektes Kunsthandwerk den Weg durch die<br />
Zeit finden und zeitgemäß sind.<br />
Inspired by History<br />
In spite of the quartz crisis, Michel Parmigiani, who<br />
attended courses in instrument making and micromechanics in<br />
addition to his apprenticeship as a watchmaker, opened his first<br />
workshop in 1976 <strong>–</strong> Parmigiani Mesure et Art du Temps. There<br />
he built unique pieces for collectors and restored antique timepieces.<br />
Mechanical objects from past masters must be restored in keeping<br />
with their methods. To understand a masterpiece, a long research<br />
phase has to be undertaken before even touching the piece. With<br />
objects often unsigned or unique in their genre, the restorer has to<br />
trawl through works and museums to track down any related<br />
pieces that might give an indication as to the mechanism’s workings,<br />
or even play Sherlock Holmes to detect some traces or<br />
imprints left by friction from a wheel that is no longer there.<br />
Hence before dismantling the piece, the restorer spends plenty of<br />
time stripping it down mentally. Michel Parmigiani enjoys reviving<br />
dead watches.<br />
In the early 1980s, he was commissioned to restore the valuable<br />
timepiece collection of the writer Maurice-Yves Sandoz. Much<br />
more came out of this connection: Pierre Landolt, President of the<br />
Sandoz Family Foundation, encouraged Michel Parmigiani to set<br />
up his own manufactory. The foundation supports the company<br />
financially.<br />
Twenty years after the opening of Michel Parmigiani’s first workshop,<br />
the Parmigiani Fleurier brand was officially launched.<br />
In the more than twenty years since its foundation, the company<br />
has presented an impressive number of calibres <strong>–</strong> the Fleur<br />
d’Orient table clock and the Toric Capitole Waves and Bugatti<br />
Type 370 wristwatches, to name a few examples, among them <strong>–</strong>,<br />
benefiting from the unique know-how of its founder.<br />
In addition to developing and producing new models, often inspired<br />
by antique timepieces, Parmigiani Fleurier’s workshops continue to<br />
restore old timepieces and unusual pieces such as Fabergé eggs and<br />
other exquisite mechanical works of art. An example of this is the<br />
snuffbox with songbird by the Frères Rochat.<br />
Parmigiani Fleurier proves that extraordinary quality work and<br />
perfect craftsmanship find their way through time and are indeed<br />
contemporary.<br />
www.parmigiani.com