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 ...
A chef once joked to me that the secret ingredient to a fillet mignon was an extra 20 quid. It would be easy, albeit a little churlish, to suggest the tourbillon movement could be subjected to a ...
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 ...
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 ...
ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Progress Watch Corporation (PROW), reports that their new START tourbillon movements have enjoyed a great reception at the watch shows in Basel and Geneva in ...
Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly collaborates with H. Moser & Cie. on the Streamliner Tourbillon, featuring his personally ...
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 ...
Breitling first introduced the Classic Car series to its popular Top Time line back in 2021. The original lineup included three iterations equipped with ETA movements, but in just two short years, the ...
One of the most accessible watch brands in the country, Titan is slowly taking its place among the greats through in-house ...
Dive watches, by nature, have to be robust. Not only must they be water-resistant to extreme depths, but they must also be resilient enough to hold up against the bumps and knocks that accompany ...
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 ...