Chinese Tourbillon with power reserve indicator

Chinese made Tourbillon with a power indicator.

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• chinese tourbillon
• watch
• wristwatch
• tourbillon
• power reserve

[kisetsushin]

@vivianyeap

Honestly, whether you understand anything i've said on here or not, which, by your ever so witful comment, i'd guess that you don't. I still know more than you ever would about Ku Tai Yu's watches and, more importantly, how he goes about doing what he does.

[kisetsushin]

@vivianyeap

Maybe you should do that yourself, because anyone who has an inkling of horology would know that his watches are not the same as the thing in this video.

You think you're doing him a service by comparing the watch in this video to his work? Wake up.

[vivianyeap]

@kisetsushin look up Mr. Kiu first...u idiot

[kisetsushin]

@McAsymptote

I wasn't being confrontational. What i said was completely logical and the fact is, is that these watches aren't that special and didn't get much time from a designer. You were talking about this like it was someone's life work, which would be an insult to whoever people designed it because if their line of work is designing watches, then they already have the capacity for something much better.

[kisetsushin]

@McAsymptote

In other words, even if it was a single person who designed this, they didn't even do a good job. The reason why it has so many mechanical flaws is because they actually couldn't design it from scratch, this tourbillon is like a franken-watch; parts from existing movements reassembled with different bridges and plates in order to become a tourbillon. So, in reality, this is nothing special and the people who made it probably know it.

[kisetsushin]

@McAsymptote

There's no evidence stating either way that this was or wasn't designed by a single person. I doubt it was a single person though. Even if it was a single person, it's a simple watch, and it's not even well done, the carriage is out of poise by nature because they kept the line of centers. I can, and infact, i HAVE designed time only tourbillon wrist watches with much more sensibility and efficiency of design, and i did it in my head, no drawings, just basic measurements.

[kisetsushin]

@tomasdoc2002

Also, if i have seen one, i would have been told not to say where i saw it and who owned it. Now, let me ask you; have you ever seen one? I mean, in person and in your hand.

[kisetsushin]

@tomasdoc2002

What does that have to do with anything? I'm not talking about overkill, using 20 different alloys in a watch isn't overkill, it's idiotic. An accurate watch is made with brass and steel, all of the steel is the same, only with different heat treatments for different types of parts. The brass is almost all the same, at most there would be 2 different alloys for brass, one for the plates and bridges and the other for wheels and bushings. What else would you possibly need?

[tomasdoc2002]

@kisetsushin interesting statement from someone that restores watches... let me do the overkill, ever seen Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Grande Sonnerie?

[kisetsushin]

@tomasdoc2002

Actually they're not made of many tested alloys, the Swiss use Sandvik steel, and the brass alloys are similar to 356. If you think the Swiss are using special alloys to somehow make better watches, then you're wrong, and they're definitely not using 20 different alloys, that would be outright stupid. The Chinese watches are made of equivalent materials, as are my watches and the components i make for restorations. Quality has very little to do with the materials used.