Parmigiani Fleurier's Tonda PF Sport Chronograph has spent the past two years quietly assembling one of the strongest arguments in the steel sports chronograph category. Milano Blue, London Grey, Arctic Grey, and the Ultra-Cermet experiment at Watches & Wonders 2025; each iteration has reinforced the same point.
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For decades, Dominique Renaud was the watchmaker's watchmaker, the mind behind some of the most technically ambitious complications ever produced under other houses' names. Through the mythic Renaud & Papi manufacture, later acquired by Audemars Piguet, he became one of the most consequential movement architects of the modern era.
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Porsche Design has officially opened its new Timepieces Manufaktur in Grenchen, Switzerland, marking the brand's first permanent production base in the country's watchmaking heartland. The ceremonial opening took place on March 19, 2026.