In French, “tourbillon” translates into “whirlwind,” but in the watch making industry it is the term of a relatively complex feature present in some high-end timepieces. By default, all wrist watches ...

A chef once joked to me that the secret ingredient to a fillet mignon was an extra 20 quid. It would be easy, albeit a little churlish, to suggest the tourbillon movement could be subjected to a ...

Buying a mechanical watch with a finely-crafted tourbillon movement can set you back tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but if you don’t mind one made out of plastic and a bit larger than ...

Swiss watch maker Hautlence has just released their first tourbillon. About a decade ago, this was a big deal, as producing a tourbillon-based mechanical movement was considered a sort of milestone or ...

ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Progress Watch Corporation (PROW), reports that their new START tourbillon movements have enjoyed a great reception at the watch shows in Basel and Geneva in ...

The second instalment of the Wicked movie franchise is set to arrive this autumn, with tales of gravity being defied central ...

It's latest release is a new piece with a staggering enamel dial and a tourbillon complication. The Master Grande Tradition ...

The three-axis tourbillon is one of the most complex watch complications in the world. Originally based on a design by watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, this type of tourbillon – literally “whirlwind” ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Omega 30i Tourbillon. This is the story of ...

Zenith is taking its bold Defy series to new extremes with the debut of the Defy Extreme Double Tourbillon. The model is equipped with the brand’s most advanced chronograph to date: the El Primero ...

The highlight of this new collection is not only its unique design conceived by Guenat, but the watchmaker’s first-ever, in-house automatic tourbillon movement, the Calibre CRMT1—the brand’s 8th ...

A new tourbillon watch has been launched via Kickstarter this week in the form of the carbon fibre Skeleton Tourbillon Watch by DAUMIER. Available in limited editions at a super early bird price the ...