Long before the inclined tourbillon became a modern high-watchmaking signature, Andrew H. Potter explored a deceptively simple question: what happens if the regulating organ is set at an angle?
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Masters of Chronometry Episode 3 explores how the tourbillon changed once watchmakers began putting it at an angle, from 19th-century American pocket watches to today’s most ambitious wristwatch mechanisms.
The new Escale en Alaska is a unique Louis Vuitton pocket watch with enamel artistry, animated animals, a tourbillon, a minute repeater and an eight-day power reserve.
MB&F’s HM12 The Guardian pairs a complex Horological Machine with a 38 cm robot companion, creating one of the independent watchmaker’s most character-driven concepts yet.
A compact look at the week’s standout watch releases, from H. Moser & Cie.’s Off-Grid digital complication to Vacheron Constantin’s 30th anniversary Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin.
The Central Floating Tourbillon returns in Grade 5 titanium with a layered black aventurine dial, a five-day manually wound calibre and a 10-piece production run.
The Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor 39 mm pairs the sports-watch silhouette with an arrow-shaped tourbillon bridge, a new manufacture calibre and a choice of blue enamel or rose gold dial executions.
The Dutch independent atelier’s most complex 1941 model combines a 7.5-second remontoire, a one-minute flying tourbillon and central jumping seconds in a 40mm tantalum or platinum case.
The Luminor Tourbillon GMT Titanio PAM01784 pairs Panerai’s horizontal 30-second tourbillon with a full Grade 5 titanium case, openworked blue movement architecture and a 144-hour power reserve.
Hublot’s first watches with Jeff Koons split the collaboration in two directions, with a playful Classic Fusion Balloon Dog and the technically ambitious MP-14 Origin central tourbillon.
Jeff Koons’ latest Hublot collaboration turns Balloon Dog into a limited Classic Fusion while introducing the MP-14 Origin, a sapphire and titanium tourbillon with a cosmic idea at its centre.
Hublot’s Jeff Koons collaboration turns the Classic Fusion into a polished, inflated sculpture-watch and adds a sapphire-cased MP-14 Origin with an automatic central tourbillon.
ArtyA’s Complexity Métiers d’Art keeps the radical twin inclined tourbillon architecture and adds a deep layer of hand engraving, hammering and polishing inside a sapphire case.
The David Candaux DC6 Wildfire pairs a vivid orange titanium dial with UD carbon, a retractable crown and the independent watchmaker’s inclined flying tourbillon.
BA111OD’s acquisition of BCP Tourbillons marks a serious step for the young Swiss brand, crowned by a refined Chapter 4 Tourbillon T.V.D with a 120-hour hand-wound calibre.
The 35mm platinum Breguet Classique Tourbillon 7357 revisits the Daniel Roth-era ref. 3350 with a cleaner anthracite dial, improved ergonomics and a newly evolved manual movement.
Titoni steps into a more ambitious lane with the Luxe Tourbillon, pairing a hand-wound tourbillon movement with a black ceramic sports case and a CHF 11,900 price.
Louis Vuitton expands the Tambour Spin Time line with five permanent-collection references, including opal, blue, green and salmon-dial interpretations of its rotating-cube hour display.
The 39mm Laureato Fifty Tourbillon Micro-Rotor brings Girard-Perregaux’s arrow bridge, Clous de Paris dial work and a new automatic calibre into the brand’s integrated-bracelet icon.
ArtyA revisits its double inclined tourbillon Complexity with a Métiers d’Art edition that brings hand engraving, hammering, perlage and polished bevels into sharper focus.