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OBJET D’ART

LA RAVENALE

MINUTE REPEATER

IN HONOUR OF MICHEL PARMIGIANI
A MINUTE REPEATER BORN
FROM HIS ART AND LEGACY

Every December 2nd, Parmigiani Fleurier celebrates its founder’s birthday not with words, but with creation. For Michel Parmigiani, time has never been a unit of measure it is a living matter, sculpted through harmony, proportion, and patience.

This year, to honour his 75th birthday, the Maison unveils La Ravenale: a singular Objet d’Art where restoration, artistic craft, and mechanical purity converge.

This unique Lépine pocket watch is conceived as a dialogue between nature’s geometry and the highest expressions of horological savoir-faire. At its core lies a restored minute repeater calibre from the 1920s, a mechanical voice reborn through the Maison’s mastery of restoration.

IN HONOUR OF MICHEL PARMIGIANI
A MINUTE REPEATER BORN
FROM HIS ART AND LEGACY

Every December 2nd, Parmigiani Fleurier celebrates its founder’s birthday not with words, but with creation. For Michel Parmigiani, time has never been a unit of measure it is a living matter, sculpted through harmony, proportion, and patience.

This year, to honour his 75th birthday, the Maison unveils La Ravenale: a singular Objet d’Art where restoration, artistic craft, and mechanical purity converge.

This unique Lépine pocket watch is conceived as a dialogue between nature’s geometry and the highest expressions of horological savoir-faire. At its core lies a restored minute repeater calibre from the 1920s, a mechanical voice reborn through the Maison’s mastery of restoration.

THE MOST DELICATE MINUTE REPEATER

Drawing inspiration from the Traveller’s Palm of Madagascar, whose perfect fan geometry follows the Golden Ratio, this unique Lépine pocket watch transforms nature’s architecture into horological language, uniting engraving, stone marquetry, and the purity of the Lépine format.

At its heart lies a restored 1920s minute repeater from Michel Parmigiani’s private reserve of antique calibres, revived by the Maison’s Restoration Workshop and engraved entirely by hand.

Encased in white gold and adorned with opal-and-jade marquetry, La Ravenale embodies a dialogue between light and stillness, movement and permanence.

THE VOICE OF A REBORN MINUTE REPEATER

Its minute repeater, restored from a historical Ed. Koehn calibre, expresses time through sound, the most intimate form of mechanical poetry.

On demand, it strikes the hours, quarters, and minutes on two distinct tones: a low note for the hours, a high note for the minutes, and a blend of both for the quarters. Two precisely tuned gongs give the piece its acoustic identity, refined to recapture the clarity and balance of its original voice.

The Lépine construction naturally enhances this sonic presence: its open internal architecture allows the chiming mechanism to resonate with greater purity, an essential quality for a repeater. For Michel Parmigiani, mechanical musicality embodies the soul of horology. Reviving a century-old chiming calibre restores not only its function, but the emotion it once carried.

THE MOST DELICATE MINUTE REPEATER

Drawing inspiration from the Traveller’s Palm of Madagascar, whose perfect fan geometry follows the Golden Ratio, this unique Lépine pocket watch transforms nature’s architecture into horological language, uniting engraving, stone marquetry, and the purity of the Lépine format.

At its heart lies a restored 1920s minute repeater from Michel Parmigiani’s private reserve of antique calibres, revived by the Maison’s Restoration Workshop and engraved entirely by hand.

Encased in white gold and adorned with opal-and-jade marquetry, La Ravenale embodies a dialogue between light and stillness, movement and permanence.

THE VOICE OF A REBORN MINUTE REPEATER

Its minute repeater, restored from a historical Ed. Koehn calibre, expresses time through sound, the most intimate form of mechanical poetry.

On demand, it strikes the hours, quarters, and minutes on two distinct tones: a low note for the hours, a high note for the minutes, and a blend of both for the quarters. Two precisely tuned gongs give the piece its acoustic identity, refined to recapture the clarity and balance of its original voice.

The Lépine construction naturally enhances this sonic presence: its open internal architecture allows the chiming mechanism to resonate with greater purity, an essential quality for a repeater. For Michel Parmigiani, mechanical musicality embodies the soul of horology. Reviving a century-old chiming calibre restores not only its function, but the emotion it once carried.

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Functions

Hours, minutes, small seconds, minute repeater

Unique Piece

Case

Hand-engraved and polished according to the La Ravenale theme
18ct white gold PD150
Lépine pocket watch style

Diameter:

51.8 mm

Thickness:

13.1 mm

Crown:

Ø 8.00 mm, set with a blue sapphire

Crystals:

Domed anti-reflective sapphire

Case back:

Polished and domed, inlaid with opal and jade marquetry

Water resistance:

Dust-resistant

Dial

Material

18ct white gold treated in blue

Finishing:

Hand-engraved and grained

Square hour markers, PF logo applique, and subdial frames in 18ct white gold

Hands

Hours and minutes:

18ct white gold, openworked Delta shape

Seconds:

18ct white gold, baton-shaped

Chain

18ct white gold, entirely handmade
Alternating oval and hexagonal links, beveled and polished
One oval link engraved with PF logo
Length: 320 mm

Movement

Original movement manufactured by Koehn A GENEVE, numbered 78708
Manual winding Swiss anchor escapement
Minute repeater chiming on two gongs
Symmetrical hammers
Hanging barrel with Maltese cross stopwork
Split bimetallic balance with steel hairspring

Movement specifications

Total dimensions:

38.25 mm

Thickness:

6.8 mm

NB of jewels:

27

Decoration:

Bridges and mainplate beveled and hand-engraved

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A TRIBUTE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF NATURE

La Ravenale draws its inspiration from the Ravenala madagascariensis, the Traveller’s Palm of Madagascar, whose perfect fan symmetry follows the laws of the Golden Ratio and whose trunk gathers water to sustain wanderers in distant landscapes.

To Michel Parmigiani, these natural forms reveal an underlying order. This spirit informs the engraving that animates the case, dial, and bridges, as well as the opal-and-jade marquetry adorning the caseback, a composition that balances reflection and stillness, sky and earth.

The Lépine pocket-watch format amplifies this artistic vocabulary.
Its generous architecture offers clarity and space, allowing métiers d’art to unfold with full expressive depth, engraving, marquetry, and stonework breathing across surfaces shaped specifically for them.

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PERPETUATING THROUGH RESTORATION

At the heart of La Ravenale lies a 1920s minute repeater signed Ed. Koehn, a rare calibre fully restored by the Parmigiani Fleurier Restoration Workshop. Ultra-thin and displaying central hours, minutes, and small seconds, it has been revived through a process where time itself becomes the raw material.

Selected from Michel Parmigiani’s private reserve of antique movements, the calibre was kept for the day it could be given new life. Its restoration required months of patient work: no spare parts exist, every intervention must remain faithful to the original, and its friction-set jewels demand uncompromising precision from the engraver.

Hand-engraved with palm motifs and finished using traditional techniques, the movement unites mechanical architecture with the natural geometry that inspired the piece, giving new life to a calibre preserved for decades “for the day it could be reborn.”

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THE DIALOGUE OF MATTER: OPAL AND JADE

Encased in white gold, La Ravenale reveals on its caseback an opal-and-jade marquetry, a rare encounter between two stones with distinct characters and contrasting ways of capturing light.

Opal, fragile and ever-changing, holds shifting iridescence like a fragment of sky. Each piece must be shaped and polished individually, with the precision of micromosaic work and almost no margin for error. Jade, by contrast, diffuses light with a quiet, steady glow, offering a serene counterpoint to the opal’s living brilliance.

Together, they form a composition of opposites, movement and stillness, sky and earth, echoing the natural harmony that inspired La Ravenale and transforming light itself into part of the craft.

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MÉTIERS D’ART

THE OPAL AND JADE MARQUETRY

This exceptional composition was crafted by master artisans whose expertise in precious-stone marquetry transcends traditional horology. Their work transforms the caseback into a true tableau, a mineral landscape where light, colour, and matter converse in silence.

MÉTIERS D’ART

THE OPAL AND JADE MARQUETRY

This exceptional composition was crafted by master artisans whose expertise in precious-stone marquetry transcends traditional horology. Their work transforms the caseback into a true tableau, a mineral landscape where light, colour, and matter converse in silence.

Each stone was chosen not only for its beauty, but for its symbolic resonance, one mutable, the other immutable.
Each fragment must be individually cut, shaped, and polished before being set into the white- gold base, a process closer to micromosaic than to lapidary art.
Together, opal and jade create a mineral dialogue, between the ephemeral and the eternal, translucence and opacity, vibration and calm.

MÉTIERS D’ART

THE ART OF LIGHT IN METAL

The engraving of La Ravenale was entrusted to the artisans of Atelier Blandenier in Neuchâtel, one of Switzerland’s last ateliers devoted entirely to the ancestral craft of hand-engraving for haute horlogerie.

Their work extends from the bridges of the restored movement to the dial and the white-gold case itself.

MÉTIERS D’ART

THE ART OF LIGHT IN METAL

The engraving of La Ravenale was entrusted to the artisans of Atelier Blandenier in Neuchâtel, one of Switzerland’s last ateliers devoted entirely to the ancestral craft of hand-engraving for haute horlogerie.

Their work extends from the bridges of the restored movement to the dial and the white-gold case itself.

Each engraving is a micro-architecture, where depth is counted in microns, yet emotion resonates far beyond the surface.
The motif, inspired by the geometry of the Traveller’s Palm, is not decorative in the usual sense. It translates the veins of the palm leaf into a pattern of equilibrium .
Under the microscope, every line becomes a sculpture of light, drawn by a burin guided only by the engraver’s breath, rhythm, and intuition.
The dial displays a deep blue achieved through a calibrated PVD treatment, depositing an ultra-thin layer of colour in a vacuum to create exceptional chromatic depth, a contemporary gesture within an object shaped by ancestral craft.

MÉTIERS D’ART

WHERE MASTERY MEETS LEGACY

La Ravenale is brought to life in the same way it was conceived: through the hands of those who embody the highest level of horological mastery.

Its movement, its case, and its chain are assembled entirely within our ateliers in Fleurier, by a small circle of our most experienced watchmakers, the very same artisans entrusted with our Grandes Restaurations and Objets d’Art.

These watchmakers carry a rare savoir-faire, one built over decades of restoring historical masterpieces and reviving mechanisms that have survived centuries. Their gestures are precise, patient, reverent, the kind of gestures that do not simply assemble a watch, but honour a lineage.

MÉTIERS D’ART

WHERE MASTERY MEETS LEGACY

La Ravenale is brought to life in the same way it was conceived: through the hands of those who embody the highest level of horological mastery.

Its movement, its case, and its chain are assembled entirely within our ateliers in Fleurier, by a small circle of our most experienced watchmakers, the very same artisans entrusted with our Grandes Restaurations and Objets d’Art.

These watchmakers carry a rare savoir-faire, one built over decades of restoring historical masterpieces and reviving mechanisms that have survived centuries. Their gestures are precise, patient, reverent, the kind of gestures that do not simply assemble a watch, but honour a lineage.

Working under the guidance of Michel Parmigiani, whose philosophy continues to shape every decision, they approach La Ravenale with the same devotion they reserve for the most precious timepieces of the past.

MÉTIERS D’ART

THE CHAIN

The chain of La Ravenale is far more than an accessory, it embodies a discipline on the brink of disappearance, revived through the hands of Laurent Jolliet, Switzerland’s last master chain-maker.

Forged entirely in 18-carat white gold, weighing 36.5 grams and measuring 31.5 cm, it reflects one of the most demanding crafts of traditional horology. From raw metal wire to the final articulated links, every stage is executed by hand, drawn, shaped, bent, soldered, and polished with tools and gestures that have changed little in a century.

MÉTIERS D’ART

THE CHAIN

The chain of La Ravenale is far more than an accessory, it embodies a discipline on the brink of disappearance, revived through the hands of Laurent Jolliet, Switzerland’s last master chain-maker.

Forged entirely in 18-carat white gold, weighing 36.5 grams and measuring 31.5 cm, it reflects one of the most demanding crafts of traditional horology. From raw metal wire to the final articulated links, every stage is executed by hand, drawn, shaped, bent, soldered, and polished with tools and gestures that have changed little in a century.

Each of the approximately 100 hours of work required to complete the chain is guided by instinct as much as by measurement. Every bevel, every joint, every polished facet reflects the dialogue between metal and hand, between structure and grace.
The hexagonal links take their form from the pocket watch’s bail, their mirrored symmetry creating a perfectly elongated silhouette. Alternating with oval links that echo the elliptical geometry of the PF emblem, the composition achieves both balance and rhythm.

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