Parmigiani Fleurier Tourbillon to power the Bugatti 16 C Galibier concept

Sporting somewhat similar styling to the recently introduced Kalpa Hemispheres watch, the new Bugatti-branded watch will feature a power reserve indicator and an exposed tourbillon escapement.

It is still not clear, what kind of movement will be hidden behind the elegant matte-black dial and what kind of material the case will be made of.

However, judging by its dial layout, one may infer that the watch will be animated by the Parmigiani Caliber 500 manual-wind movement with a tourbillon escapement. Beating at a rather slow frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour, the movement provides the watch with as many as seven days of guaranteed power reserve.

The Swiss watchmaker claims the Caliber 500 to be the very first 30-second tourbillon movement that sports a central seconds hand and offers such a prolonged time of operation without winding. Of course, there is a power reserve indicator at 12 o’clock, because during a whole week it is easy to forget when you wound the watch last time.

It is known that the new Parmigiani Fleurier Tourbillon watch will be a truly multipurpose timepiece, which is designed to be comfortably worn on a wrist or installed on the supercar’s leather-clad dashboard.

If I understand it correctly, the watch can also be docked to other objects of art.

Although by no means new –the latest example is the bespoke timepiece for the Pininfarina Rolls-Royce Hyperion one-off– the concept is still fascinating, though not really practical. I mean, people who can afford a super-luxury four-door coupe that costs like ten decently loaded Porsche Panameras, can easily pay for a, so to say, standalone tourbillon chronograph for the vehicle’s dashboard.

Also, there is a good possibility that, constantly traveling from the owner’s wrist to the car’s dashboard, the watch will surely need polishing at least twice more often than a normal watch.

It still looks fantastic.

Photos: Bugatti

Parmigiani Fleurier Tourbillon watch specification

Price range: N/A
Movement: N/A
Complications: Tourbillon, power reserve indicator
Power reserve: N/A
Case material: N/A, probably white gold or even platinum
Case size: N/A
Case height: N/A
Dial: Black
Water resistance: N/A
Strap: N/A
Crystal: N/A