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

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

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

Back to good old Watchfinder mode again 👍

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.

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

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.

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

Didn’t recognize you with the gloves on 😆

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

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?

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”.

Leng and Heyne is so underrated. Awesome watch.

This is one of your best videos! Informative.

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?

Thank you, Mr Talking Gloves.

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

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!

Stunning craftsmanship and design.

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.

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.

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

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

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... 😳... 🙂

You have done it again. Superb video as always!

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 :)

I am overwhelmed by the beauty of this watch.

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

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

Thanks

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

You spin me round round baby round round

Thank you for the lesson!!! 🙂

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

Now that's a classy dress watch.

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.

Lang & Heyne are criminally underrated. Fantastic watches.

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

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

Suggestion ; a video on Longines

I'm a proud owner of a Lange tourbillon watch

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

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..

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

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.

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

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?

Basically works like a combi drill

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

Merci beaucoup l'Ami !

That view of the back of the movement 🥰

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

i literally searched this a few weeks ago

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

Beautiful

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

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

$100k watch... amazing...

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

It's just like an alethiometer

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

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.

cool

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

World's smallest Rube Goldberg device.

Is tourbillion a complication or is a type of movement?

This toy for me as REPAIR TEAKNICAION

Gorgeous

nice.

Yes office workers are sad cases

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

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

On Moon, tourbillons work differently.

the talking gloves...

Were are the beautiful hands gone? 😮

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

Can you get hold of something made by Roger Smith?

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? 😂

Ah this is why my apple watch is so pricey

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.

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.

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

Please change the songs

hmm

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

Lot more hours…

£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.

the watch that nobody wants

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

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

Pointless waste of money in my opinion.

I own a rolex with tourbillon