| Each watchmaker engraves his or her personal initial on the main tourbillon plate. |
| The fascinating gyration of the tourbillon carriage is matched by the steady, ample beat of the seconds. This model epitomises the very foundations of horological emotions and a form of absolute and uncompromising beauty. |
| In the late 18th century Abraham-Louis Breguet, a legendary Franco-Swiss watchmaker, tried to combat this by enclosing the entire balance-wheel and escapement mechanism in a rotating cage an invention known as a tourbillon. |
| To cut a long story short, fitting a tourbillon device on a marine chronometer, which remains rigorously flat due to the effect of the gimbal suspension, is pointless. |
| Hand-wound movement with tourbillon and fusee-chain transmission. |
| The cage of the tourbillon containing the escape wheel, anchor, and balance wheel rotates in 40 seconds. |
