Tourbillon Archive

  • The Thomas Prescher floating tourbillon

    The Thomas Prescher floating tourbillon

    What can you do to make the tourbillon even more precious? How about you skeletonize it until it is completely hidden in the bezel? This amazing one-off piece was made by Thomas Prescher and that little wheel in the middle there is the tourbillon mounted balance wheel. It is wound by the spinning of that [...]

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  • Swatch to release Turn to Him and Turn to Her tourbillons

    Swatch to release Turn to Him and Turn to Her tourbillons

    A little bird sent us these images Swatch's upcoming Tourbillon collection, the Turn to Her and Turn to Him. I don't have much information but I do know that Swatch used to make automatic mechanical movements but stopped some time in this decade. This new movement appears to use a rotating cage to move the balance wheel in a full rotation around the central stalk, a design decision which differs from the standard stationary tourbillon cage. This looks like a limited edition movement and the guy's model is beefier than the iced-up ladies' model. It seems to come in a limited, numbered edition and may be similar to the special edition tourbillon sold quite a while ago.

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