Posts Tagged ‘ Tourbillon ’

Now usually you won't see these kind of titles on Monochrome, however in this case I wanted to make an exception. The reason for this, is that withstanding the shocks and G-forces that a wrist watch endures during a game of golf, are 'pretty extreme'.

Of course we're happy for 33 year old Bubba Watson....
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An intriguing macro photo of a tourbillon is what triggered me to choose this as Weekly Watch Photo. Not just a normal tourbillon, but one with a entirely different hairspring and one that makes an unusual rotation!

The connoisseurs among you already recognized the tourbillon from Jaeger-LeCoultre's new Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon that we fully explaned...
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Since a few years, Jaeger-LeCoultre offers, with the Duomètre collection, the perfect logical next step in the evolution of mechanical watches with a complication. The idea is as simple as it is ingenious and it accomplishes a much more precise rate for Duomètre watches with the so-called Dual-Wing construction.

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Because of an incredibly busy schedule I didn't have time to visit Lange und Söhne until the last day of the SIIH 2012. What I got to see wasn't simply amazing, it was so much more than amazing. For me it was the apotheosis of the fair.

The new Lange 1 Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar is...
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Watch photographer Peter Chong is specialized in high-resolution photography and photo-stacking. When shooting a photo of the earth, those techniques can be helpful. Especially if it's the miniature earth in the Greubel Forsey GMT. 

When Greubel Forsey released the GMT, we could only show you...
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Now Piaget launched the Gouverneur Tourbillon, you may wonder whether the Gouverneur is a new model. It is and it isn't. Piaget actually restyled and relaunched the entire Gouverneur collection and did a more than excellent job on the  by adding a playful mix of round and oval shapes and of course magnificent in-house...
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