Parmigiani Fleurier Unveils Chronograph Ultra-Cermet with a New Material

Leave it to Parmigiani Fleurier to make material innovation an exercise in restraint. While the practice of borrowing high-tech materials from aerospace or automotive industries is not new to watchmaking, it is often accompanied by aggressive posturing – all wild colours and boasts of virtual indestructibility. Not so at Parmigiani Fleurier. When the brand announced it had become the first to use cermet (a composite of ceramic and metal, covered below and in our materials special…