Tourbillon seemed like a good idea at the time but turned out to be only useful as a decoration as the caged rotating escapement never made the movement function more accurately than a conventional bridged balance wheel. That’s why it never caught on as anything beyond a novelty. But it looks cool.
@@miggygetright6344So Breguet is like Rolls Royce they can careless what other car manufacturers are doing they will keep making the same product for their target audience and with great quality because their product speaks for itself people that know watches know they’re good quality watches just like people who know cars know Rolls Royce makes good quality vehicles the audience that wants to buy either brand knows who they are they don’t need to market like these other brands because they are established
So when i was not interested in watches, i have an automatic (gifted to me) with open heart of which i proclaim a tourbillon. No one correct me on that though. The embarassment i feel when i realized i was wrong years down the line when i finally start to care about watches 😂
Teddy. Please. The Tourbillion is a scam since at least 50 years. It's super easy to make, and watch makers have been charging way too much for way too much time. You can get a double Tourbillion watch for under 1000€.
Those are synthetic rubies. Often called jewels. Since they are the second hardest material before diamonds, they almost never wear out, so in watches they are mainly used as bearings in a watch movement to reduce the friction between a watch's mechanical components protecting them from getting worn out.
They’re decent, but the problem with them is finding a watchmaker to repair or service them. It’s expensive to service. And the parts are difficult to get.
People be like : Tourbillion is so complicated, so much parts, prestigious movement, that's why it's expensive. Then came Seagull and other brands selling it for wayyyyy cheaper. You know you are being ripped off. It's all about marketing, and branding.
Swiss Watch industry has to be the biggest scam. I mean like we can build sophisticated semiconductors for few hundred dollars but a watch costs thousands of dollars😂
Probably the economies of scale. Everyone wears thousands of semiconductors but not many wear watches and then go on to automatic watches. And then the history, prestige, quality and finish
Chinese are good at complexity but not quality. Atleast I think so. They do make a lot of machines which are complex, but I've never seen good quality.
@@vyrsh0the point though is that it can still be done. So if it’s going to be good quality, maybe $5k at the most. What justifies $999,800 price increase?
@@daltonparker7792 maybe they don't have that kind of engineers or lack some kind machines, but Chinese are never able to produce quality stuff for some reason. and I have specifically seen it in mechanical stuff not civil or electrical. how much money you put in is hardly going to make a difference.
@@vyrsh0 the Chinese actually make some of the finest time pieces in the world, along side japan. It’s the price point you look at though. The grand seiko for example, is the most precise mechanical time piece in existence (aside from super computers that cost$$$), it’s hand polished beyond the standards of any other watch maker in the world, and it still remains elegant and simple. The grand seiko is a marvel of engineering, and is made by 3 guys I believe, from the drawing board, all the way to the customer. And yet, those watches cost $10k brand new. It’s a level of precision that is unmatched. But these watches are going for $100k, simply for a gimmick. :/
Wdym? He explained it about as well as you can in a short. It’s a mechanism that rotates the spring that causes the watch to “beat”, that way gravity gets more evenly applied to said spring as you wear it throughout the day. Explain it much further and the video becomes a physics lesson.
