Beat Haldimann H1 Flying Tourbillon Purists Edition

Beat Haldimann is a Swiss Federal Certified Master Horologist and a manufacturer of high quality, exclusive hand-made Swiss wristwatches and pendulum clocks. Beat was born in 1964 in Berne Switzerland and he established his own company in 1991, Haldimann Horology. The workshops are located in Thun.
Beat introduced the H1, a central flying tourbillon wristwatch at the AHCI exhibit during the 2002 Basel Fair. The tourbillon cage is 16.8 mm with a large balance of 14.4 mm.
The dial features a lyre-shaped tourbillon carriage and the case is crafted by hand.
The H1 already offers many unique features, including a proprietary pallet design that was designed and created by Mr. Haldimann himself, as well as an ingenious three barrel design that results in a very flat torque curve, for extremely stable and reliable timekeeping. It also incorporates several other specifications and designs that make this central flying tourbillon unlike any other. It is a true Master Watchmaker's Creation, one that is owned by no less a horological genius than Dr. Ludwig Oechslin. Even Martin Wehrli, a Director in Audemars Piguet, which owns Renaud & Papi, and someone who can be a bit jaded and cynical about timepieces and the industry, having seen and done it all in high horology over the past 30 plus years, had nothing but praise for the design and execution.
He uses a two solid piece sandwich dial, designed for permanence - the goal was to achieve the stability of enamel without the fragility of that medium. Both pieces of the dial sandwich are solid massive metal plates with a very stable finish.
He tunes the escapement and case design to approximate the "voice" of a classic pocketwatch, and he believes in the mythical "singing Breguet over coil" (the lyre shaped tourbillon cage is an homage to this)

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