In the grand tapestry of automotive history, Koenigsegg's Light Speed Tourbillon Transmission is an entirely new volume of ...

The tourbillon is among the most complicated complications ... To do this, Breguet mounted all the parts of the movement – that’s the escapement, balance wheel, and balance spring – in ...

The word tourbillon is French for whirlwind, and the mechanism was invented by the great watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, who patented the mechanism in 1801. Back then, the biggest problem for ...

Anyone who looks at a tourbillon will be drawn in and fascinated by the cage of the timepiece, which typically holds the escapement wheel, the escapement and the regulatory organ, the balance. All ...

It would be easy, albeit a little churlish, to suggest the tourbillon movement could be subjected to a similar observation, but with a punchline of one or two extra zeros. Perhaps even an entire ...

I called the dial semi-skeletonised above, and I stick by that. Parts of the dial – the sub-dials, tourbillon and centre stack, specifically – protrude from a neatly crosshatched dial ...