Watches
Why Are Tourbillon Watches So Expensive?
One of the most complicated watchmaking feats can cost as much as a house.
Tourbillon
Latest
-
-
WatchesThis Is One of the Most Affordable Swiss Tourbillon Watches We’ve Ever Seen
Independent watch brand Zelos’s new Mirage offers exotic case materials and a Swiss-made tourbillon beginning at $11,000.
-
-
WatchesParmigiani Fleurier Just Released an Incredibly Thin, Automatic Tourbillon Watch
The Toric Tourbillon Slate, a new haute horlogerie creation from masterful restorer-turned-watchmaker Michel Parmigiani, is just 9.45mm thick.
-
WatchesHere’s What Vantablack, One of the World’s Darkest Materials, Looks Like in a Wristwatch
H. Moser’s newest wares make use of Vantablack, a material so dark that it absorbs over 99% of visible light.
-
WatchesWhy Did This Understated Omega Watch from 1947 Sell for Almost $1.5 Million?
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.
-
WatchesCompletely Handmade Watches Such as These Are Almost Unheard Of
Independent watchmaker Greubel Forsey has undertaken the near-impossible task of making a complicated watch almost entirely by hand.
-
WatchesHow This Unconventional Brand Changed the Watch World for the Weirder
MB&F’s mechanical timekeepers are difficult to classify, and started a creative revolution that began with the HM1.
-
WatchesThe ERA Prometheus Is a Tourbillon Watch Nearly Anyone Can Afford
The ERA Prometheus watch is an impressive tourbillon timepiece that retails for under $1,500, meaning nearly anyone can afford it.
-
WatchesBreakdown: Greubel Forsey Platinum Tourbillon GMT
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.
-
