OHLALA Insights CULTURAL CALENDARS

Parmigiani Fleurier presents timepieces displaying three calendars: Gregorian, Islamic and Chinese.

Parmigiani Fleurier has created a trilogy of watches made in platinum that bring three different calendars using their alphabets. The Gregorian calendar is a solar dating system adopted by most of the world using Western-Arabic numbers. The Islamic calendar is a traditional lunar calendar and uses Eastern-Arabic numerals. The Xiali calendar brings the complex Chinese system based on lunar and solar elements with Chinese numerals.

Human history has always sought to control time, its flow and its predictability to organise and impart a distinctive rhythm to social, religious and agricultural life. The calendar is a universal concept enabling us to identify dates that appear like milestones. All civilisations have created them according to their perception based on the path of the sun, moon or both. While time is the same for everyone, its reading and measurement are specific to each human society.

The three watches are made in Platinum 950 with a sandblasted finish. The indices come in 18-carat gold rhodium-plated appliques; the moon phase is represented in blue aventurine. This exceptional trilogy is issued in a strictly limited edition of three box sets.