Buying a mechanical watch with a finely-crafted tourbillon movement can set you back tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but if you don’t mind one made out of plastic and a bit larger than ...
In French, “tourbillon” translates into “whirlwind,” but in the watch making industry it is the term of a relatively complex feature present in some high-end timepieces. By default, all wrist watches ...
Swiss watch maker Hautlence has just released their first tourbillon. About a decade ago, this was a big deal, as producing a tourbillon-based mechanical movement was considered a sort of milestone or ...
With its elite movement, a high-complication, a métiers finish, ultra-thin engineering and a COSC certification, the Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin would have been an overachiever when it comes to the ...
In celebration of its 270th anniversary, Vacheron Constantin has just launched a new watch series, featuring 13 special ...
The manufacture unveils a new series of Les Cabinotiers watches entitled ‘La Quête', which pays tribute to astronomy and the ...
The highlight of this new collection is not only its unique design conceived by Guenat, but the watchmaker’s first-ever, in-house automatic tourbillon movement, the Calibre CRMT1—the brand’s 8th ...
The three-axis tourbillon is one of the most complex watch complications in the world. Originally based on a design by watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, this type of tourbillon – literally “whirlwind” ...
Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Omega 30i Tourbillon. This is the story of ...
The thin timepiece genre has become something of a battleground, with watch companies introducing record-breaking models at one show only to be outdone at the next. And this back-and-forth is far from ...
A new tourbillon watch has been launched via Kickstarter this week in the form of the carbon fibre Skeleton Tourbillon Watch by DAUMIER. Available in limited editions at a super early bird price the ...