Macro shot of a flying tourbillon

[Eltsuman]

And also, I personally don't care how much people are suffering throughout the world, if I have a chance of buying an expensive but beatiful clock, I will do so.

[216adam]

@Eltsuman you are an idiot for making such a comment. You may as well be Hitler - not caring how much suffering there is in the world. Perhaps you could find a better way to express your desire to own a watch.

[Eltsuman]

@216adam I actually do regret posting that comment, seeing it now. I ''may have'' been a bit tired while writing that. I do apologize if I offended you, I don't really think that way, at least not anymore.

[CubanIceCube]

@Eltsuman Now now, you shouldn't be coming back on your words so easily, I don't give a fuck either. Most people are just pricks pretending to care about others, if they'd really show an interest they should be in africa educating children, not spout hypocritical nonsense on youtube.

[Eltsuman]

@CubanIceCube If that's the case, then I'm probably somewhere in the middle. I don't really care that much, yet I also do care. My previous response was merely to correct the first comment, because I expressed my feelings rather crudely, although the response in itself is also a bit exaggerated. Goddamn my need to answer to all responses on Youtube...

[Eltsuman]

It's awful when people say they know everything about clocks and use this to argue how one is better than the other. Mechanical and quartz watches both have their good and bad sides; even though quartz watches are more accurate than mechanical, they could never be as beautiful or skilled works of art as mechanical ones. And about tourbillons, they really do make a watch more accurate by reducing the effect of changing the clocks position. Not much, but still.

[ethorii]

Or an antique detent pocket chronometer would be superior and far less expensive. And with all the suffering and desperate poverty in the world, buying such a shockingly expensive trinket is pretty awful.

[yamahaki]

Nice macro on the millionsmart tourbillon.Apparently some here

don't know that the chinese make some pretty fine tourbillons

that are affordable.

[vasilijgor]

You know... Those gears doesn't affect quality of timerate at all. If they're made mistakenly, they can make it thosanfold worse. It's an accessory, nothing else.

If you need really good timerate, use electronic watch. Ones containing piezoelectric element cooled with Peltier element are the best.

[stimsWonderland]

is there a watch company that makes a wrist accessory with just the turbillon functioning and nothing else obstructing its view like dials, extra gears

[INUMIMI28]

thats a watch from BLU right?

[brapp3470]

what does it mean when people say that?

[Fate544]

there are many watches that have 'fake' tourbillons in them, which look and act like one, but have no real affect on the quality of the time kept

[maximusben1]

this one is not fake however, its a chinese Seagull movement, also used in minorva, perpetual, and many other asian brands. The movement is actually of pretty good quality, the problem is that if it breaks, there is no available parts to repair it, unlike ETA

[Descalabro]

It has already been proved that tourbillons don't help nor harm good time keeping. They were intended to help, but never actually did so.

Some experts even consider them as parasites of the watch mechanism because they drain the power suply faster.

Still, I would love to own one.

[Mistraker]

"But have no real affect on the quality of the time kept" sounds exactly like real tourbillons.

Tourbillons don't keep time any better than a standard fixed balance wheel and escapement. Watch companies just pretend they do to get people with more money than sense to pay for them.

[ethorii]

@Mistraker That is so true. But they look really cool so they're worth another 40k.

If absolute accuracy is the point, buy a quartz Seiko. No mechanical watch can compete with that plastic p.o.s.'s accuracy. I think it's amusing listening to rich white republicans go on about how accurate the're sorely outdated $30,000 mechanical watch is. It's only accurate relative to other's mechanical watches.

[Mistraker]

@ethorii If I were rich, I'd get a watch with one of those "gyrotourbillons". They look so awesome they had to invent a new word to describe them, even though they don't use gyroscopic forces to work. They just rotate on two axes instead of a single axis. Again, a standard, fixed balance wheel and escapement will be just as good at keeping time, but this sure looks cool.

[Mistraker]

@ethorii And yeah, we don't buy these watches for accuracy's sake, but there's a limit to what I'm willing to spend money for, and a tourbillon doesn't add enough style to justify the usually absurd cost. I much prefer my simple skeleton automatic to most "open heart" tourbillon watches, and it was only a couple hundred dollars. Chinese movement, I'm sure, but it's been reliable, and tells time as well as any other mechanical watch I've owned.

[gtq838]

@ethorii thats right all rich people are white and republican and only they have nice watches. Its really not about accuracy although they are very accurate and can compete just fine with a quartz watch but more about the fact its running with no batteries and is beautifully hand made. its an engineering marvel. Its jewlery women have all kinds of it guys have mabe a wedding band, cuff links and a watch. thats it.

[ethorii]

@gtq838 A tourbillon is known to add no accuracy to the mechanism. I have been a watch tech. for almost 20 years. Tourbillons were thought to be an improvement, but it's all about bragging and show. It was a beautiful experiment, totally unnecessary. A tourbillon CAN'T compete with a cheap quartz watch. A good quartz will hold to a few seconds a month. A fine mechanical wristwatch will keep at best a second every 3 or 4 days. If accuracy is the goal, an Omega co-axial.

[gtq838]

@ethorii please totally ignore the comment...

never did I say a tourbillion was better than a normal watch, I just said it was accurate, and it is. even a quartz watch is dim in comparison to any GPSr. I also said that its jewlery more than it is a watch, which it is. I pointed out your racism.

What people do with their money is fine. I'm guessing you have things that are expensive (relative to income level) and not needed. worry about your own money why don't you.

[sentrarob]

Ahh yes, if I could only afford one. Truly a work of art but now outdated since we have the automaticc wristwatch with an oscillating disc. Still truly a watchmakers highest creation!!!

[isaimoreno666]

Nice!!!

[Avantime]

This is a 100% Chinese Tourbillon, a Glashutte copy I think.

[efmun]

no, it´s Blancpain tourbillon copy.

[philclock]

Ein Chinakracher!

[ethorii]

This is a Chinese flying Tourbillon. I had the same watch once. I know by the little crystal stone above the escape wheel. Good quality and about $800-1000 on that famous auction site.

[warpduck]

dude, seriously... every tourbillon has a jewel on top

[Descalabro]

he was mentioned the white crystal, not the jewel...

[lolcat23]

er what? each tourbillon has a jewel on top where?

[ethorii]

@warpduck You misread. I meant the little white rhinestone decoration. I'm a watchmaker, and could probably school your ass on how these and about any other type of watch works. K? K.

[warpduck]

@ethorii Its always a bad idea to just asume

[microsoup]

Glashutte Original!!! Very nice!!

[ondrej1987]

what watch is it? wery nice :)

[pkri]

sehr schön.. very nice

[kisetsushin]

Incredible complication.

[lolcat23]

hello, my name is mister nit-picker.

Technically a tourbillon is not a complication(like chronographs, QP's, minute repeaters etc), its just a way of building the escapment(and not an escapment in it self, since you can have tourbillons with different escapements inside)