Another exhibition of Greubel Forsey’s mechanical mastery is this Double Tourbillon Technique. While the tourbillon cage itself is complicated enough, the manufacturer decided to complicate it even more by placing a tourbillon within a tourbillon. The inner one rotates every [...]

Every unique problem requires an equally unique solution. When your problem is telling the time accurately for 31 days on a single winding, then this watch is the solution. The Lange 31 is the world’s first mechanical watch that has [...]

Few people will change something that’s both reliable and complicated at the same time. Not Franck Muller. He saw the tourbillon that Breguet invented and decided to complicate it even more. Muller decided to put a minute hand on the [...]

Patek Philippe has it, but doesn’t flaunt it. Most buyers who want a watch with a tourbillon escapement would want the visual treat of seeing the magnificent complications, but they would be disappointed when they see the watchface of this [...]

Pure artisans are few and far between these days. With the global trend of outsourcing and modern technology taking over the manufacturing process, it’s nice to note that there are things that are best left for master craftsmen’s hands. Jaquet [...]

You’d be forgiven into thinking that all master watchmakers are within the confines of the Swiss border. There are other hopeful optimists out there who want to carve out a name and niche for themselves and Stepan Sarpaneva is one [...]

Abraham-Louis Breguet invented the tourbillon to negate the effects of gravity on the accuracy of a mechanical watch. The new Breguet 5347 Twin Tourbillon has not one, but two tourbillon regulators, effectively doubling its accuracy. Not only is it more [...]