Swing Rhythm and Beauty Brought by Tourbillion Watch

Keeping rotating, rotating and rotating. This is used to describe the state of most outstanding achievement even gained of watch making – tourbillion.
People who have a sight of tourbillion would be attracted by its framework, for structures such as balance, regulating mechanism and escapement device and wheel are frequently contained in the small space. All these small, smart and complicated parts would keep rotating constantly. The waist watch lovers will definitely lost in their appreciation on tourbillion.
Abraham-Louis Breguet, the Swiss watch making master invented tourbillion in 1795 and gained the patent in 1801 in Pairs. The original attention was not out of aesthetic reasons, but to deal with the deviating issues of accuracy and precision caused by the location of the pocket watch – regularly a pocket watch was always fixed in someplace (table, nightstand or pocket) for long time at that time.
The invention of Breguet settled down influence of fixation by designing the rotating frame of a tourbillion. To the watch itself, the location issue isn't that several due to the co-movement of the watch and the wearer. However, it has been proved that watch of the kind is the most precious mechanical watch - persuasive evidence is that Jaeger-LeCoultre was the winner in the first international Astronomical timekeeping event with the sponsorship by Chateau des Monts, and another tourbillion watch also gained the second success.
The ultimate complicated function
The tourbillion watch which is named as ultimate complicated enjoys a high evaluation due to the fact that it is very difficult to design and make an excellent watch of the kind. Only those best manufactures have the condition to produce such complex device in some degree.
The point that make it a big different from other kinds of watches is the point that the structure keep constant rotation. Beauty of the dynamic movement and its powerful function make become king in among watches rapidly and help the manufacture gains a lot of reputation in the watch making industry. However, the watch is not the hot when compared with several years ago due to the declined freshness to the public and its rapid development. There were only few makers have the ability to make tourbillion watch in the past, but new which would inspire the watch lover is that more and more maker begin to supply watch of the kind and the price is more affordable. Even though the number of the watch increases in a large scale, but we should keep it in mind that the manipulation of tourbillion making techniques are still a remarkable achievement.
As the core of the producing tourbillion watch, the framework is definitely a skill of art. The device itself contains more than 50 small parts and each is of a very light weight (for example, the whole framework of the Vintage 1945 Tourbillion of GP has three gold support and is combined by 70 different parts weighing only 0.3 grams.)
Artistic sublimation: application of enamel to draw stunning watch
Not any watch maker is able to assemble a tourbillion, but those who are with skilled crafts can deal with such complicated structure. An ordinary watch is frequently assembled by a group of craftsmen together, everyone just take charge of only a determined small part in the whole process. However, it is a whole difference for a tourbillion watch maker. In the whole process, the professional mater would assemble the watch from even a small detail; every part should be assured to be put in the right place, and polishing, grinding, decoration, check and control of the watch should be manipulated in hand. The whole process would costs a lot of time to make sure that every watch is unique enough cause polishing and check would lead to the slight difference. Therefore, it can be said that every piece of tourbillion is a unique artwork in some degree.
Due to the popularity of the watch, many manufactures develop it in an multi-function direction and push it step into a new stage. Girard-Perregaux, FranckMuller, AudemarsPiguel, Jaeger-LeCoultre, JeanDunand etc. have functions of tourbillion, perpetual calendar,minute reapeater, Greenwich standard time, Chronograph and so on. The Aeternitas of FanckMulle is known as one of the most complex watch in that it contains almost all the known functions. JeanDunand let the dial of the Tourbillion Orbital rotate as well, thus the dial changes with the day and night. RogerDubuis brought us the double tourbillion while Greubel-Forsey inclined them. The small watch making manufacture is dedicated to pull the tourbillion watch to further method. The Thomas Prescher watch of the kind is taking advantage of handmade techniques, so does Roland Murphy of RGM.