Blancpain Tourbillion Mechanical Watch - Assembly & Testing

Heres a brief video showing assembly and testing of a high end Blancpain Tourbillion watch.

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Science & Technology

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• tourbillion
• swiss
• watch
• assembly
• mfg
• luxury

[Kg277]

What a waste of resources. All this trouble for an inferior watch that has bad accuracy. Quartz accuracy can't be beat by mechanical movements.. My cheap $12.95 Casio has more functions, is more durable, and far more accurate than anything the swiss industry can produce with mechanics.

[hifisapi]

@Kg277 you miss the point of owning fine mechanical watches completely

[1D0N]

Now I know where "Time Is Money" originated from...

[finaldestinyx]

@Kg277 i agree with hifisapi you completely miss the point. and also, whats the point of painting or drawing then? isn't it just easier to take a picture? Next time, think before you say something

[Vot63]

@Kg277 In life the journey is far more important than the arrival. It's not so much what you do that's important as how you do it. A mechanical watch tells the time with 99% accuracy using mechanical advantage, constructed with supreme ingenuity and powered by a mere twist of the thumb and forefinger. If you don't think that that's the stuff of wonder and amazement you have no appreciation of life.

[Desmonddd2002]

@THE16THPHANTOM that watch is probably more well-built than any US houses as well as able to hold its value better.

cheers.

[roccotool]

Why wear a watch that 10 million other people have? And why waste money on batteries and new watches over a number of years? Find a good vintage one with jewels and you will be unique. Wear it for decades.

[joey7253]

@Kg277 You are seriously retarded. Should probably go to see a doctor.

[Nebraskahusker23]

@THE16THPHANTOM That's actually pretty inexpensive as far as tourbillons go.

[strychninecologne]

@Kg277 this is basically comparable to saying you would rather buy a mass-produced paper poster of a supermodel than a "shitty quality" 1800s painting of some old guy, aka pretty much missing the point like hifisapi said

[THE16THPHANTOM]

$150.000 are you insane... i can buy a house with that kind of money.

[pitskunk]

@Kg277 What a waste of intelligence. All this brain for an inferior comment that has bad analysis. My stupid 12 years old redneck cousin has more relevancy than anything you can produce.

[screamosux]

@Kg277 The older quartz watches were better made, actually. But my point was that more material is used in the long run on a quartz watch than on a maintained mechanical (especially older ones).

I don't quite understand your reasoning for saying mechanicals are 'inferior' and have 'bad accuracy'. The American railroad-approved watches from 100+ years ago had to be accurate to <±30 seconds a week, and they run just as accurately over a century later. I know this because I service them.