By Jovan K
Parmigiani’s latest Tonda PF Micro-Rotor No-Date arrives in a steel-and-rose-gold suit with a Stone Blue dial that’s easy on the eyes and light on distractions. It’s part of the permanent collection, not a limited run, which tells you they’re confident enough to let it sit alongside the rest. The no-date format isn’t new, but this two-tone configuration adds a bit of contrast to the family. If you’ve followed the Tonda PF story since 2021, you’ll know it’s been a slow burn of refinement rather than reinvention.
Tonda PF Micro-Rotor is presented in a 40mm x 7.8mm case. The two-tone application uses rose gold to highlight the knurled bezel, the crown and the specific second and fourth links of the integrated bracelet. The small 4.3mm screw-down crown secures 100 meters of water resistance, a practical choice for this sports watch profile.
As expected from the Tonda PF family, the Stone Blue dial is certainly the visual anchor. The surface employs the hand-guilloché grain d’orge or barleycorn pattern. The absence of a date window grants an uninterrupted vista of the texture. Rose gold appears again for the applied indices, the PF cartouche at twelve and the signature skeletonized delta hands.
Beneath it all runs the Calibre PF703, an automatic in-house engine known from the Tonda 1950 line. This caliber is thin at 3.07mm. It runs at 3Hz, with a 48h reserve, which should suffice. The 22k rose gold micro-rotor, which keeps the thickness down, is decorated with the matching grain d’orge guilloché pattern.
It’s worn on a two-tone integrated bracelet with brushed and polished surfaces. The clasp is concealed, the price is CHF 28,200.
