Parmigiani Fleurier Kalpagraph Savane automatic chronograph (Atelier Collection)

The new member of the Atelier Collection, the elegant and imposing Parmigiani Fleurier Kalpagraph Savane automatic chronograph watch, brings you a winning combo of a complicated in-house movement, a finely crafted rose gold body and a gorgeous dial with amber inlays.

Parmigiani Fleurier will turn 35 years next year. Possibly to celebrate this anniversary, the premium Swiss watch making brand is going to present a couple of new members in its refreshed Atelier Collection — the Kalpagraph Manta and Kalpagraph Savane models.

While the original series of Kalpagraph chronographs didn’t really strike me as absolutely wonderful, this latest addition to the line –especially the gorgeous Savane– did the job.

The reason is, perhaps, in a much more elaborated decoration of the watches’ dials that finally managed to balance the complex shape of the chronograph’s body with its three-dimensional face.

The amber-like chronograph totalizers and brown dial, which is color-keyed to Savane’s ostrich leather strap, also look much better than the black-on-black dial and strap of the original Kalpagraph in rose gold that looks (as it is the case with the new IWC Portuguese Automatic Chronograph in Rose Gold (Ref. IW371482)) outright intimidating.

The watch is powered by their in-house PF Caliber 334 automatic movement that we have already seen last year beating inside their Pershing chronograph watch.

Working at a standard frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour, the movement is built on 68 jewels and is painstakingly hand-decorated by Parmigiani Fleurier’s artisans.

The only problem with the new Parmigiani Fleurier Kalpagraph Savane automatic chronograph is that you will not be able to buy it in a watch boutique. According to the company, all members of the Atelier Collection will be sold only during ten or something special events that will be organized in the richest parts of the world throughout the year 2010.

Photos: Parmigiani Fleurier

Parmigiani Fleurier Kalpagraph Savane automatic chronograph watch specification

Price range: N/A, around $20,000 I suppose
Movement: Automatic, Parmigiani Fleurier 334 calibre, in-house, 68 jewels, 28,800 vph, bridge is decorated by hand with the Cotes de Geneve pattern
Complications: Date, chronograph
Power reserve: 55 hours
Case material: Rose gold
Case shape: Cushion
Case size: 37 mm
Case height: 12 mm
Dial: Different shades of brown
Hands: Rose gold
Water resistance: N/A
Strap: Brown ostrich leather
Crystal: Sapphire