With its ability to follow lunar cycles, the Tonda Hijri Perpetual Calendar earned Parmigiani Fleurier the Innovation Prize at the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Genève 2020.
The platinum wristwatch was the second in a trilogy, which started with the Gregorian Annual Calendar and is now complete with the new Tonda PF Xiali Calendar based on the Chinese lunisolar system that dates back to the Shang dynasty (1570-1045 BC).
Parmigiani Fleurier’s third cultural-calendar project features hybrid timekeeping, which takes into account the Moon’s synodic orbit around the Earth and the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
“Calendars are a radiography of civilisations. I think of the Maya and the…
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