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How On Earth Does A Tourbillon Work?

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
  • If you’ve ever wondered how a tourbillon in a watch works, let me explain. First we’ll look at the history, then the theory, and finally the technicality of one of watchmaking’s most impressive complications.
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Комментарии • 163

  • @FuglyStick
    @FuglyStick Год назад +101

    Tourbillon or not, that is one of the best looking watches I've seen.

    • @bartobruintjes7056
      @bartobruintjes7056 Год назад

      For you, it's ok.

    • @saltskeggur
      @saltskeggur Год назад +1

      minimalist yet somehow excessively exorbitant

    • @johnblake6500
      @johnblake6500 10 месяцев назад +1

      One of the best-looking watches....is it in the eyes of the admirer?

    • @FuglyStick
      @FuglyStick 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​​@@johnblake6500What seems to be your problem, that someone else has a subjective opinion that you take issue with? Are you a child?

    • @5678plm
      @5678plm 3 месяца назад

      That was my reaction when I first saw it.

  • @JasonTheWatchGuy
    @JasonTheWatchGuy Год назад +56

    Tourbillon is probably the most brilliant complication in a wristwatch! With that being said, I had to re-watch this over and over to get the information in because I kept getting lost in the subject piece

    • @kokhui32liau88
      @kokhui32liau88 Год назад +4

      If I not wrong a tourbillion is not a complication, it's a type of movement.

    • @chriss2122
      @chriss2122 Год назад

      Perpetual calendar is way more impressive.

  • @iDeondrae
    @iDeondrae Год назад +183

    Many of you are gonna pretend you understood the principles first time you watched this…

    • @LaurentiusTriarius
      @LaurentiusTriarius Год назад +16

      The first time I saw a tourbillon ad in a french Elle magazine sitting on the toilet back in 1991 I wondered what that sorcery was, didn't get it fully yet.

    • @wolfcommander6009
      @wolfcommander6009 Год назад +16

      I still dont understand why it matters what others understand so i just keep it movin yo

    • @Ballsyone
      @Ballsyone Год назад +3

      @@wolfcommander6009 hehehe yyyyep. Me too.

    • @mitchmitchell9588
      @mitchmitchell9588 Год назад +4

      That's exactly right. When Mr. Hands gets going, gotta go back and get a refresher on mechanical engineering. People just need to admit that they don't get it!

    • @clementckm
      @clementckm Год назад +2

      It’s a complication that’s proven not working, so basically we don’t have to pretend

  • @janelavie4115
    @janelavie4115 Год назад +8

    Back to good old Watchfinder mode again 👍

  • @keepgrindingup7661
    @keepgrindingup7661 Год назад +11

    That is an absolutely gorgeous watch ... it works extremely well explaining the definition

    • @dxwkx9119
      @dxwkx9119 Год назад

      Not just the tourbillon, the finishing on the movement is incredible.

  • @jackroom1261
    @jackroom1261 Год назад +12

    John Arnold came up with the idea of the tourbillon. After he died in 1799 breguet patented it in 1801. It’s know he came up with it as breguet gave the first tourbillon movement - which was retrofitted to an Arnold movement, to Arnold’s son in 1808 I believe.

  • @penngwinn
    @penngwinn Год назад +17

    Wow, that's a beauty. While you talked about the tourbillon I went and got mine in the Zeroo T4 that you've shown a few times. Thanks for sharing that one! Now I get to have one of these complications, and save myself $107k.

  • @TheLieutenant
    @TheLieutenant Год назад +2

    "You just have to work more hours at a desk to afford one" had me DYING 🤣🤣🤣👍

  • @matthewbrotman2907
    @matthewbrotman2907 Год назад +7

    Didn’t recognize you with the gloves on 😆

  • @JochenVogel
    @JochenVogel Год назад +12

    Yes, quite the beauty. And with a lot of thought having gone into its construction, obviously. I would have liked to hear more about this individual tourbillon. Does Lang & Heyne's care for balancing the whole construction make it more shockproof than other flying tourbillons? Is that charming shock-protection spring L&H's own design? Does the pallet-lever owe its shape solely to the form of the tourbillon-cage or are there other reasons behind it? Etc., etc....
    And of course: Are these really Your hands, Andrew? Or did someone else in Dresden put on gloves in the attempt to pose as You?

  • @BarisPalabiyik
    @BarisPalabiyik Год назад +10

    This felt great, after all these podcast kind of episodes.

  • @xevious4142
    @xevious4142 Год назад +1

    Leng and Heyne is so underrated. Awesome watch.

  • @neerajs75
    @neerajs75 Год назад +1

    This is one of your best videos! Informative.

  • @rtbinc2273
    @rtbinc2273 Год назад +1

    I think it was Tom's hands masquerading as Andrew. I just love the watch. My Great Grandfather trained as a jeweler in Dresden back in the day. I wonder if he knew or at least met Lange?

  • @coffeeisgood102
    @coffeeisgood102 Год назад +2

    I had really regarded the tourbillon in a wristwatch as unnecessary excess, only practical for a pocket watch. But you bring up a good point about people who live physically sedentary lives. That makes a lot of sense. We could even give it a name, “The Sedentary Watch”.

  • @statlerwaldorf7130
    @statlerwaldorf7130 Год назад +1

    Beautiful and ingenious many thanks Andrew, a pleasure to watch and learn

  • @dreamst
    @dreamst Год назад +1

    Stunning craftsmanship and design.

  • @alexsully1233
    @alexsully1233 Год назад +3

    Lovely watch and good presentation but to my mind it would have been better if diagrams or individual components had been had been used to explain/illustrate each stage of the description. Clearly it is not possible to take such a valuable watch to pieces but It is not always obvious which is the part being described to those who are not watch nerds. By the way, I used to write technical guidance for my living and have both of George Daniel's books so not without an understanding myself - I just think there are better ways of explaining such details.

  • @phillipkitta5447
    @phillipkitta5447 Год назад +1

    Great video…could you make a review of LONGINES ULTRA CHRON PLEASE? THANKS

  • @minhdanghoang0110
    @minhdanghoang0110 Год назад

    Hi, may I ask what type of camera body and lens you used to make this wonderful video?

  • @samfallow18
    @samfallow18 Год назад +1

    Thank you, Mr Talking Gloves.

  • @mitchmitchell9588
    @mitchmitchell9588 Год назад +1

    Beautiful video. I'm putting this is my "save for later" file because I want to rewatch and try to understand all that Mr. Hands is explaining. As an American, it's kinda like listening to the BBC reports on cricket matches. I know you are speaking English, but I don't get a damn word you are saying. HAHA!

  • @alphacause
    @alphacause Год назад +3

    Tourbillons are a quintessential example of people creating something that is hard to achieve, not because they need to, at least not anymore, but just because they can. Yes, during the era of pocket watches tourbillons had great utility, but now when a watchmaker invests time and the expense to create one, it is just a demonstration of their skill. Tourbillons are to watch making what making a street legal car that can break the 300 mph per hour speed barrier is to the automotive industry. There is no practical application for it, but it is a admirable demonstration of skill and human ingenuity. After all, one of the things that distinguishes us from other animals is our desire to achieve more than what is practical. The same push to design something so difficult as the tourbillon is what drives everything that we characterize as great human achievements - from the Great Pyramids to the Michelangelo's David, to Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

  • @dodgydruid
    @dodgydruid Год назад +1

    I got my first tourbillion, from a usual chinese cheap company called Oskar Emil, it is not only a tourbillion but also a regulateur and is very steampunk. Heck I paid £13 for the Orbit, automatic as well and very very eyecatching :)

  • @mannybruce8950
    @mannybruce8950 9 месяцев назад

    A $100,000 Tourbillon watch .
    China : " Hold our chopsticks " .

  • @kfwimmer
    @kfwimmer Год назад

    You have done it again. Superb video as always!

  • @robertlock6041
    @robertlock6041 Год назад +1

    Wow! This is wonderful, I love this watch!Thanks Andrew. L&H have an instructional video on the Anton, which is worth a peak... So you borrowed this! And I thought you had it in stock... hopes rise, and collapse. Oh well, continue saving I suppose... 😳... 🙂

    • @donjuan150
      @donjuan150 Год назад +1

      They never talk or show the watches they have for sale....strange...

  • @azz710
    @azz710 Год назад

    I am overwhelmed by the beauty of this watch.

  • @user-hv6dv6wh7v
    @user-hv6dv6wh7v Год назад

    A phenomenal watch indeed. But the jewel securing spring at the center of the tourbillion with the three attachments. One opening is past the peg and just cut out to fit. I can't stop seeing that. It couldn't be an oversight. Is it a designed imperfection?

  • @FFrappeFairy
    @FFrappeFairy Год назад +1

    I watched the whole thing and I’m still wondering how it works

  • @ppsalev
    @ppsalev Год назад +3

    When the talking hands get the gloves on - the things get serious .

  • @scottyrob82
    @scottyrob82 Год назад +3

    Now that's a classy dress watch.

  • @thevu-riley-poleselfamily3744
    @thevu-riley-poleselfamily3744 Год назад

    Hey can you recommend a book that you have read that really inspired you to learn and taught you a lot about watches

  • @BatsiraiMusuka
    @BatsiraiMusuka 11 месяцев назад

    I lean more towards round faced watches…but this is beautiful.

  • @quicktutorialsfastreviews5964
    @quicktutorialsfastreviews5964 Год назад

    Suggestion ; a video on Longines

  • @MrTripsJ
    @MrTripsJ Год назад

    The soundtrack on your videos makes me emotional over a tourbillon lmao

  • @Ballsyone
    @Ballsyone Год назад

    Thank you for the lesson!!! 🙂

  • @javahaxxor
    @javahaxxor Год назад +1

    I'd like to see a video of a modified Seamaster 300M with tritium markers. Maybe a superluminova/tritium cake.. I used to have a cheap watch with tritium, superluminova can't hold a candle to it really.. Thinking about having mine modded..

    • @WALNIKOSs
      @WALNIKOSs Год назад

      The blue screw is a second marker

  • @ammoalamo6485
    @ammoalamo6485 10 месяцев назад

    Beautiful work of art, should be displayed more often. It is one of the few items I would buy with my massive lottery winnings, soon to come if I can get off my duff and buy a ticket. Despite the careful explanation I still don't know how a toubillion works, though.

  • @yunlongwu8071
    @yunlongwu8071 Год назад +1

    I'm a proud owner of a Lange tourbillon watch

  • @henryerlich6132
    @henryerlich6132 Год назад +3

    Lang & Heyne watches, not only this model, are at the absolute highest level of finishing.

  • @korbindallis
    @korbindallis Год назад

    Thanks

  • @hankcohen3419
    @hankcohen3419 Год назад

    Can you report on the Girard-Perregaux constant force escapement?

  • @denverdog44
    @denverdog44 Год назад

    You spin me round round baby round round

  • @TheGbelcher
    @TheGbelcher Год назад

    This is 800 year old engineering that is still mind blowing.

  • @noname-dv5py
    @noname-dv5py Год назад +1

    Your explanation would be more understandable (for example, for school students) if you animate or compare it with smth in the simplest way.

  • @ChristianrnstrupRasmussen
    @ChristianrnstrupRasmussen Год назад

    Those slotted screws are not alignment with the edge and one in another colour.

  • @josephpaul8874
    @josephpaul8874 Год назад

    You just know a watch is very special when "the hand" is hiding it's nakedness with a scratch proof glove...

  • @ericalbert6954
    @ericalbert6954 Год назад

    Merci beaucoup l'Ami !

  • @mnnaqs
    @mnnaqs Год назад

    Basically works like a combi drill

  • @geraint8989
    @geraint8989 8 месяцев назад +1

    This perfectly describes why no Rolex has a Tourbillon. On one hand is brilliant watchmaking, on the other gaudy lumps of gold with billions spent on marketing.

  • @stubbybutt8839
    @stubbybutt8839 Год назад

    so if i'm understanding correctly its an escapement that rotates?

  • @adrishbanerjee5822
    @adrishbanerjee5822 Год назад +1

    I have a mathematics exam tomorrow and i am watching this 😭

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 Год назад +1

    I have an identical chinese knock off ... works perfectly . $375.00

  • @Lexcoaster
    @Lexcoaster Год назад +4

    Lang & Heyne are criminally underrated. Fantastic watches.

    • @raupenimmersatt6906
      @raupenimmersatt6906 Год назад +1

      True- but you cant flex with them while taking pictures while driving your car like you can with your 10k Submariner.
      If I had the money, one of the German brands are my first pick for Sure

    • @Lexcoaster
      @Lexcoaster Год назад +2

      @@raupenimmersatt6906 Flexing is for those who seek validation in others. :)

    • @raupenimmersatt6906
      @raupenimmersatt6906 Год назад +2

      @@Lexcoaster So like the majority now for Rolex SS Model buyers ;-)
      But im with you.. there are so many good watches for less than a Submariner- for example a used Breguet Heritage in Full gold..

    • @Lexcoaster
      @Lexcoaster Год назад +1

      @@raupenimmersatt6906 Exactly! Breguet is also highly underrated. Although you should always buy the watch you want regardless of what others think. ;-)

    • @raupenimmersatt6906
      @raupenimmersatt6906 Год назад +1

      @@Lexcoaster true- im currently heavily considering a Breguet Heritage or Glashütte Panomaticlunar.
      The Breguet is a steal used considering the retail price was 30-40k lol and you can get them from 7-12k Depending on the bracelet

  • @0_IQ_Noob
    @0_IQ_Noob Год назад

    Remember this guy has posted about a tourbillion before ...

  • @chrisc475
    @chrisc475 Год назад

    That view of the back of the movement 🥰

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 Год назад +1

    The gravity pointing wrong way issue with the wristwatch is a complete oversimplification and is straight up wrong. The only people the tourbillon faces “the wrong way” for are office workers and even then only sometimes. Walking, driving, working with hands, all has the tourbillon face correctly.
    The real issue is it moves around so much on your wrist that it doesn’t have any real effect, or rather the effect is outweighed by you yourself changing its position.
    Tourbillons on wristwatches are useless unless they are 2 or 3 axis.
    Even the fp journe sideways tourbillon - still useless

  • @kokhui32liau88
    @kokhui32liau88 Год назад

    Is tourbillion a complication or is a type of movement?

  • @philco2290
    @philco2290 Год назад +2

    At Timestamp 7:04 7:04 one can see that the tourbillon on this particular watch is not constructed properly. One of the circles around the crystal ( the shock protecting gold nib ) in the center isn’t connected to its rod. Wonder if that is an issue.

    • @nullifye7816
      @nullifye7816 Год назад

      It seems longer than the other two "Isle of Man legs". I saw it but thought it was probably intended simply to tension off that pin.

  • @Sur-Ron
    @Sur-Ron Год назад

    It's a shame you didn't use a Breguet.

  • @ardie554
    @ardie554 Год назад

    Nice, very nice watch!
    Let's see if I get to 2000 hrs overtime behind my desk..

  • @constastar1660
    @constastar1660 Год назад

    171W172

  • @gonzalle
    @gonzalle Год назад

    Breguet was Prussian, then French... Did all his carreer in France

  • @porscheoscar
    @porscheoscar Год назад

    World's smallest Rube Goldberg device.

  • @legacywatchguy8333
    @legacywatchguy8333 Год назад

    ...as I nod my head and mutter, "Uh huh...", and remain as clueless as ever. But, thanks for trying Andrew.

  • @RaymondLo84
    @RaymondLo84 Год назад

    $100k watch... amazing...

  • @andreaargelli2934
    @andreaargelli2934 Год назад

    Beautiful

  • @zainphillips643
    @zainphillips643 Год назад

    Are we gonna pretend you never did this exact video 3 years ago?

  • @SupernalOne
    @SupernalOne Год назад

    It's just like an alethiometer

  • @ashrafkhan9316
    @ashrafkhan9316 Год назад

    This toy for me as REPAIR TEAKNICAION

  • @headshot6959
    @headshot6959 Год назад

    Can you get hold of something made by Roger Smith?

  • @Mizai
    @Mizai Год назад

    i literally searched this a few weeks ago

  • @coffeemarshall3484
    @coffeemarshall3484 Год назад

    Rumor has it that this is how a tourbillon works on the moon as well. Believe it.........or not.

  • @jackwilson5542
    @jackwilson5542 Год назад +1

    Tourbillon is arguably the most useful watch complication. Anything else you can emulate with a smartwatch.

  • @Bob-1802
    @Bob-1802 3 месяца назад

    On Moon, tourbillons work differently.

  • @jamespatrick1548
    @jamespatrick1548 Год назад +1

    If NASA ever has an engineering dilemma they need help in resolving, they should head to Zurich or Glashutte and talk to these watch people. Astonishing feats of engineering.

  • @Mixa_Jr
    @Mixa_Jr 23 дня назад +1

    koenigsegg is faster than tourbillion. the koenigsegg channel tested it.

  • @sam3346
    @sam3346 Год назад

    Were are the beautiful hands gone? 😮

  • @grointastic4242
    @grointastic4242 Год назад

    Yes office workers are sad cases

  • @LambentOrt
    @LambentOrt Год назад

    Gorgeous

  • @Hunter-dn8sy
    @Hunter-dn8sy Год назад

    nice.

  • @mrspondozi
    @mrspondozi Год назад

    I like the look of heat blue screws in a watch but I don't understand why the tourbillion has 1 blue and 2 plain screws. If someone has decided that it looks good for aesthetic reasons, it's lost on me. Nice watch though.

    • @mikenorris5378
      @mikenorris5378 Год назад

      Guessing the blue indicates the seconds.

  • @quatrical
    @quatrical Год назад +2

    I don’t have enough money on my wallet to understand these 😂

  • @ronaldhuang2496
    @ronaldhuang2496 Год назад

    Ah this is why my apple watch is so pricey

  • @gizmofactory
    @gizmofactory Год назад +1

    the talking gloves...

  • @348frank348
    @348frank348 Год назад

    cool

  • @markosthomadakis9256
    @markosthomadakis9256 Год назад

    Excellent video. However you do realise gravity is relative to mass hence it’s impact on a mechanical watch is minimal. The tourbillon is a brilliant invention of that time and in my opinion it was mostly a demonstration of superior design and sophisticated engineering over anything else. By the way mechanical watches are like the steam engines in trains. I mean you do know that quartz watches are by definition way better compared to any mechanical watch? 😂

  • @PunitSedani
    @PunitSedani Год назад

    Tag Heuer makes the cheapest of these movements available for a collector

  • @carlosoruna7174
    @carlosoruna7174 Год назад

    Umm. I'll go with a casio quartz and invest in gold for the balance.

  • @BaquePhotography
    @BaquePhotography Год назад

    So explain to me why this watch still cost 100k. I can buy a CAD CO2 cutting laser for a couple grand for the small parts and a regular CNC mill for the larger pieces, and literally make every part of that movement myself. I see hundreds of watch repairers online that can disassemble and assemble every watch put in front of them. Why not just make it yourself. Casting gold and silver can be done anywhere with a couple of hundred bucks worth of kit and finally you can 3d print in casting wax. So there's no part of that watch you couldn't manufacture at home. Has anyone done this? Certainly typing in the words "3d tourbillon file download" into google will yield something.

  • @dihanahmed965
    @dihanahmed965 Год назад

    hmm

  • @Dadnatron
    @Dadnatron Год назад

    Lot more hours…

  • @michele_
    @michele_ Год назад

    Please change the songs

  • @markjones1337
    @markjones1337 Год назад

    Wait till the watch makers of today finally realize gravity is a myth. Faker than Rolex in a Turkey seaside shop window.

  • @tomcraig8027
    @tomcraig8027 Год назад +1

    £110,000 or £300 with Tourbillon from Chinese manufacturers. Sure the craftsmanship and hand finishing etc etc but doesn’t this exemplify the utter insanity of high end watch pricing? Having said that as always a great explanation Andrew.

  • @LaurentiusTriarius
    @LaurentiusTriarius Год назад

    I have pocket watches with tourbillons but no wristwatches, that's another lever of collecting, unless you're into the Chinese stuff. Meh

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Год назад +1

    the watch that nobody wants

  • @handlesarethelaststrawiquit
    @handlesarethelaststrawiquit Год назад

    Are you crazy? You can't wear that watch sitting at a desk!

  • @ahmed-A.112
    @ahmed-A.112 Год назад +1

    I own a rolex with tourbillon

    • @robertkallai1327
      @robertkallai1327 Год назад

      Looks good on my submariner too.

    • @garyboyle695
      @garyboyle695 Год назад

      If you do it's an aftermarket add on as Rolex have never made one.

    • @ahmed-A.112
      @ahmed-A.112 Год назад

      @@garyboyle695 no bro its factory a piece unique