
Why Are Tourbillon Watches So Expensive?
One of the most complicated watchmaking feats can cost as much as a house.

One of the most complicated watchmaking feats can cost as much as a house.
By Zen Love and Andrew Connor

Independent watch brand Zelos’s new Mirage offers exotic case materials and a Swiss-made tourbillon beginning at $11,000.
By Zen Love

MB&F and H. Moser & Cie.
By Zen Love

The Toric Tourbillon Slate, a new haute horlogerie creation from masterful restorer-turned-watchmaker Michel Parmigiani, is just 9.45mm thick.
By Zen Love

H. Moser’s newest wares make use of Vantablack, a material so dark that it absorbs over 99% of visible light.
By Oren Hartov

When Omega made one of the earliest tourbillon wristwatches in the ’40s, they didn’t know what it would later mean to the watch industry.
By Zen Love

Independent watchmaker Greubel Forsey has undertaken the near-impossible task of making a complicated watch almost entirely by hand.
By Zen Love

MB&F’s mechanical timekeepers are difficult to classify, and started a creative revolution that began with the HM1.
By Zen Love

The ERA Prometheus watch is an impressive tourbillon timepiece that retails for under $1,500, meaning nearly anyone can afford it.
By Gear Patrol

Of all the brands of the Richemont luxury group to exhibit at the annual SIHH in Geneva, Greubel Forsey may be the most ambitious and experimental. Their hand-wound Tourbillon GMT has been out a few years — 2011 saw its initial release in pink gold and the white gold version came out a year later — but this year it was released in weighty platinum as a truly fascinating timepiece.
By Ed Estlow
