tourbillon – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com Professional Watch Repair Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:30:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://swisswatchland.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-New-Swiss-Watchmakers-Logo-Watch-Repair-32x32.jpg tourbillon – Swiss Watch Makers https://swisswatchland.com 32 32 Vacheron Constantin Shows Us The Beauty Of Skeleton Movements https://swisswatchland.com/2014/02/06/vacheron-constantin-shows-us-the-beauty-of-skeleton-movements/ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:06:08 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3258 Another SIHH watch this one is from Vacheron Constantin
Before I go on I must admit I am very fond of skeleton movements.
But this one is truly eye catching.

                 Vacheron Constantin MÉTIERS D’ART

This skeleton movement features Roman Numerals in a very extravagant fashion.
It comes with an external ring which can be either Black,Grey, or Blue; Which are made of Grand Feu opaque enameled
The Movement has been detailed by hand it is a caliber 4400 SQ and is only 2.8 mm thick and
consist of 127 parts with 21 jewels.
It produces 28,800 Vibrations per hour and has a power reserve of about 65 hours.
The casing is only 7.5 mm thick and has a diameter of 40 mm and is made of 18k white gold
It comes with an alligator Mississippiensis strap with an 18k white gold buckle.
The watch is water resistant up to about 30 meters.
If viewing the front of the movement wasn’t enough for you no worries, it has a see-through sapphire crystal.
The detail that went to this timepiece is exceptional.
It was hand engraved with such detail its hard to imagine how much time and how delicate it must have been.
 All 3 colors of this model are spectacular and very flashy.
This timepiece tells hours and minutes and you can see every part in the movement bring those actions to live.
Vacheron Constantin truly did great work with this skeleton movement and have made into a piece of art that you can wear and admire on your wrist.
]]> JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/30/jlc-counters-gravity-affects-sihh-jaeger-lecoultre/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:59:58 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3272 SIHH is one of my favorite watch events. My last few post have been about watches released at the SIHH  This next post will be about.. yes.. another.. watch released at the SIHH. Don’t worry guys I’ll review watches that come in to us later. But come on SIHH releases some of the most magnificent watches one can lay their eyes on.
But today I’ll be covering 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre. We’ll start with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon
The Spherotourbillon is part of the Duometre line, a line in which all watches use the Dual Wing concept this concept to put simply uses two power sources one for your time keeping and the other for your regulation and complication needs. This watch will be sold in very limited quantities, 75 in platinum and an unknown amount of rose gold but it’ll be limited as well as stated by Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO.
Ok so lets explain why there is a Dual Wing concept.
In a watch when you use its features a certain amount of power is used to support them, this can affect your normal features.
Let me show another world example imagine you’re on your computer it has say 8 GB and you have your platform and start up programs that use up say 3 GB (That’s a lot for just a platform and startup programs I know) then you open a video editing program that uses 4.5 GB you’ll notice that your operation on your basic platform might slow down, this is essentially the same for watches.
To resolve this they gave the complication and regulation its own power source so it won’t affect the normal time keeping of the timepiece.
Seeing the image above of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon. You can see there are two mainspring sections one labeled Hours/Minutes the other labeled Regulator. Separating the power source assures high accuracy . But just to take it a step further in accuracy they used a dual-axis, dual cage tourbillon on a 20° incline. The fact that it uses two axis means the tourbillon can counteract gravity in a large magnitude of positions. To make this watch even more exact they’ve added a flyback seconds button at 2 o’clock which resets your seconds without stopping the watch.
 The Watch has a 382 movement which consist of 460 parts with a 50 hour power reserve.
Jaeger-LeCoultre says the following about their timepiece

“An authentic revolution in the field of Grande Complication models, the Duomètre Sphérotourbillon, stemming from almost 180 years of history and invention unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre, is equipped withan unprecedented multi-axis tourbillon. In addition to the axis of its carriage, the Sphérotourbillon has a second axis inclined at 20° and thereby freeing it from the effects of gravity in all positions. The revolutionary `Dual-Wing` concept featured in Calibre 382 once again paves the way for an original function and makes this exceptional model the first tourbillon watch that is precisely adjustable thanks to the small seconds flyback system.”

  • The watch is beautiful and unique.
  • On the dial you will find two power reserve indicators.
  • A Date feature around the hour and minute indicator
  • A second indicator as well as a dual time feature.
  • Of course your able to see the beautiful tourbillon on the face of the watch.
  • Look below to see the The Rose Gold Model and White Gold Model as well as a special model that seems to have a night sky dial which I loved.

 

 

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