I agree that many of these do not look like real tourbillon watches, though some of them do look real. He does say "simulated tourbillon" a couple times, but other times, he is calling a watch a "tourbillon" that simply looks like it has an "open-heart" or skeletonized movement. And yes, I know I said "he", but that this is likely a computer generated voice in the video. In a real tourbillon, the entire balance wheel/escapement assembly rotates while the watch is running. Also, please don't call a sun/moon or day/night indicator a "moon phase" function. On some of these watches, you can clearly see that this display shows a sun at some points, and a simple half-moon at others, making it a sun/moon display where it shows a sun in the daytime, and a moon at night, not a genuine moon phase function that gradually moves a graphic of the moon over the course of about 29.5 days to show the actual phase of the moon, after initially setting it properly.
In my opinion the tourbillion is no better in timekeeping than a $10 quartz watch if timekeeping is what is needed. My $8 quartz has kept accurate time for 15 + years and looks smart. If your wealthy then sure it is nice to own a nice piece of engineering.
@@MandyLionRock just moving my first steps in this beautiful world but I think I have understood what a tourbillon is. All of those seems to me tourbillon escapements.
@@FilippoSolari It is a fascinating world isn't it? Some of these watches aren't tourbillons... all mechanical watches have an escapement wheel swinging back and forth... but a real tourbillon has that wheel inside of a spinning mechanism. So... unless you see the escapement wheel going back and forth AND spinning then it is not a tourbillon. I hope this helps?
At first, the Era Prometheus stumbled upon my search, then came Agelocer, then Ba111od, and finally the Waldhoff Ultramatic. Now I'm just completely torn as to which tourb to get 😂.
Yeah only open heart mechanicals. An actual turbion will not swing back-and-forth. Like a open heart mechanical watch does. A true turbion actually acts like a second hand.
I have an Aesop, it's always on a stop. I have to shake it up to keep it working. I just opened it up, not working. It's brand new from an elegant box with everything in it. Don't work. I don't know what to do.
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The whole point of tourbillon is to counter gravity (when the watch is worn at different angles), and hence more accurate. Tourbillon is suppose to be the pinnacle of human achievement in mechanical endeavour. Unfortunately, most tourbillon watches are LESS accurate than non-tourbillon ones, hence what's the point for all the complication (and cost)? Rolex now offers watches accurate to +/- 2 sec/day, and Omega offers +/- 1sec/day. I think only PP offeres tourbillons that are more accurate than their non-tourbillon watches, but at what cost, and they are still not as accurate as a Rolex or Omega. (OK, I own Grand Seiko's, and they are also not as accurate as Rolex or Omega, but that's another story.)
It's about a luxury timepiece that has beautiful engineering and looks mesmerizing. If time, accurate to the dot was the priority, everyone would be rocking a quartz watch. Or even better yet, checking time on their geo synchronised devices like smartphones, smartwatches which people always seem to have on their hands anyway.
What a lot of bollocks .. half of those watches are not even Tourbillons just cheap Chinese open heart watches that only resemble a Tourbillon. I have the Lobinni and at under £100 it most certainly is not a Tourbillon.
You have the link to the article in the video's description, where you'll find links to every single watch. But it's easier to complain than to do us a favor and visit the website.
