"el cheapo" tourbillon

is that a revorso?

Anyway, I have received lots of mails about "where to get plans"... well, if you want to enlight yourself with the BEST book ever written about REAL watchmaking just get "Watchmaking" by George Daniels (yes, the guy behind the coaxial escapament), you can't get any better, lots of drawings and tons of knowledge on the text, and great news! it is being reprinted!

thanks mate

that's the best my old point and shot still camera can do... sorry about that...

humble brass and steel, the materials even the cheapest or most expensive watches are made of. LOL
Actually, the "cage" was made by cutting it from another alarm clock...and yes, the plates are brass

mee to!

What would be cool would be if someone were to come up with a SolidWorks (or something similar) model of this - nothing elaborate, just something that gives everybody an understanding of how it works and the virtual model from which to construct a large scale working model (if I had this mechanism I'd do it!) I've seen no large scale working models of this mechanism anywhere on the Web.

well, it's nothing more than a tourbillon, a fairly simple mechanism, the real challenge is to make it small enough and reliable to put it on a watch... they do little to improve anything at all on a watch and carry lots of issues and drawbacks...

if you look on my photobucket account you can find a couple of bad photos of it...

It would be great if you can build a model, I started myself on ProE but I barely have any time left, I can provide you with some sketches if you need them.

Which music is this?

that's from the soundtrack of the "Lord of War" movie.