CEO Guido Terreni

“I am honored and enthusiastic about being able to contribute to enhancing Parmigiani Fleurier's reputation. It is a solid brand, capable of expressing the Swiss watchmaking heritage at the highest level, which has recently been included by UNESCO in its List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity, whilst also attracting the interest of the most discerning connoisseurs”.

28/03/2023

To Michel Parmigiani

Fleurier, 29 May 2026

Thirty years of a living legacy.

Some anniversaries invite reflection on the path travelled. Others remind us of the enduring strength of an origin.

The thirtieth anniversary of Parmigiani Fleurier belongs to the latter. It does not merely celebrate the founding of an independent watchmaking Maison. It honours the work of a man who dedicated his life to understanding time, before seeking to create it.

Michel Parmigiani has never approached watchmaking as a realm of appearances. He approached it from within: through restoration, through listening to historic objects, through the patience of the hand, and through a profound respect for what previous generations had conceived, transmitted, and at times left unspoken.

From him, restoration has never meant looking at the past with nostalgia. Restoration meant learning. Deciphering. Understanding the intelligence of an architecture, the logic of a movement, the memory held within the hand. It meant discovering, within every object entrusted to his gaze, not only beauty, but thought.

Parmigiani Fleurier was born from this conviction.

For thirty years, the Maison has carried within it a rare form of purpose: to create from profound knowledge, to innovate without rupture, to bring contemporary expression into dialogue with memory. What Michel Parmigiani has built extends far beyond a collection of timepieces. It is a culture. A discipline of observation. A way of bringing together the hand, the mind, mechanics and time itself.

Created to mark its thirtieth anniversary, the Carillon Tourbillon stands among the most personal expressions of this legacy. It gives voice to what has animated Parmigiani Fleurier since the beginning: restoration as a source of invention, complication as a language of culture, haute horlogerie as a work of transmission.

Within this timepiece resides the memory of historic watches, the intelligence of chiming mechanisms, the patience of the ateliers, the precision of the constructors, the knowledge of the artisans, and the endless pursuit of balance that has always guided Michel Parmigiani. Nothing here is gratuitous. Everything is considered, constructed, attuned.

Through the Carillon Tourbillon, we do more than unveil an exceptional creation. We pay tribute to a life’s work, to a fidelity to craft, to research and to transmission. We acknowledge what Michel Parmigiani has given this Maison: an exacting standard, a conscience.

Thirty years after its founding, Parmigiani Fleurier continues to move forward guided by this legacy. With gratitude, with respect, and with the responsibility to carry forward what has been entrusted to us.

For Michel Parmigiani’s legacy belongs not only to the Maison’s history. It continues to guide its future.

Guido Terreni