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Roger Dubuis EasyDiver Tourbillon

Today We would like to highlight the Easydiver Tourbillon from Roger Dubuis. It is a manual winding watch on a 48mm titanium watch and a transparent case. The one minute tourbillon is beatifully presented on the fully skeletonized case. The movement also displays its power reserve and can endure pressure of up to 30 atm( 300 meters) . Its retail is $124,00 and is limited to 280 pieces in the world. The product specifications are as follow:

Reference Number : SED48-02SQ-71-00/S9000/A1
Movement: Manual Winding, RD Caliber 02SQ, Flying one minute tourbillon, completely skeletonized and engraved; finely finished, Seal of Geneva
Functions: hours, minutes, subsidiary seconds(on tourbillon cage); larger date; power reserve display
Case: Titanium, 48mm, height 15.3 mm ; uni-directionally rotating bezel with 60-minute divisions; transparent case back; water resistant to 30 atm
Band: Rubber , folding clasp
Remarks: Limted Edition of 280 pieces
Retail: $124,600

Roger Dubuis EasyDiver Tourbillon

Roger Dubuis EasyDiver Tourbillon

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Tourbillon Watches

This curious invention of the Tourbillon in 1795, belongs to Abraham-Louis Breguet, who was known as the watchmaker of all Kings and the King of the watchmakers.

Even in its most conventional version, Tourbillon watches are very hard to manufacture and there are many differences between a hand-crafted cage, and a certain industrially fabricated creations.

A Tourbillon equilizes the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage in order to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece is rotated. This mechanism usually shows off on the face of the watch.

To define better a Tourbillon, we can say that it is a mechanical device consisting of a rotating cage carrying at least the balance and the escapement. The cage is rotated by the gear-train. It turns co-axially to a toothed crown placed on to the plate which serves to maintain the oscillator by means of a pinion carried by the cage.

The first Tourbillon mechanism was made by Breguet for Napoleon in one of his carriage clocks weighing almost 200 pounds.

In 2003 Thomas Prescher developed the Double Axis Tourbillon, for the Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie, powered by a special constant force mechanism called Remontoire. This mechanism equalizes the different forces caused by wound and unwound mainspring, friction, and gravitation effects.

Later in 2004 Thomas Prescher presented the Triple Axis Tourbillon, which comes with a constant force in the carriage in a wristwatch called Remontoire as in the Double Axis Tourbillon. In this high-end complication is that the tourbillon is turning around 3 axis. The first and the second axis both complete one rotation every minute and the third axis turning once every hour.

The Tourbillon is one of the most valued features of collectors’ watches and premium timepieces.

Breguet Tourbillon

Breguet Tourbillon

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Breguet Classique Tourbillon 5357BA Flying B the watch of dreams

Breguet Classique Tourbillon 5357BA

Breguet Classique Tourbillon 5357BA

The Classique watch is inspired by the work of A. Louis Breguet. This design involves purity of form, harmony of proportion and clarity of information, reflecting the ordered beauty of the movement within.

Breguet’s Grand Complications also pay tribute to the two-century-old equivalence between Breguet watchmaking and advanced mechanical science. Therefore, with its strong personality, the Classique represents the ideal face of time.

This beautiful piece features are the hallmarks of the Breguet style, from its finely-fluted caseband to its hand-engraved “guilloché” dial. (Guilloché: is an engraving technique in which a very precise intricate pattern or design is mechanically etched into an underlying material with very fine detail).

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