The luxury "collaboration product" isn't anything new, but amongst the more boutique high-end watch and clock makers, we have seen this phenomenon return and flourish with gusto. Why does this happen ...

Do you know what time it is? Chances are good that you used a computer or a cell phone to answer that question. The time on your phone is about as accurate as chronometry gets these days. That’s ...

3D printed clocks have been done before, but never something like this. It’s a 3D printed clock with a tourbillon, a creative way to drive an escapement developed around the year 1800. Instead of a ...

As complications go, the tourbillon is controversial. Is it technically a complication? Many would say no. Patented by the watchmaker Abraham-Louis Bréguet in 1801, the revolving mechanism was ...

In French, “tourbillon” translates into “whirlwind,” but in the watch making industry it is the term of a relatively complex feature present in some high-end timepieces. By default, all wrist watches ...

A chef once joked to me that the secret ingredient to a fillet mignon was an extra 20 quid. It would be easy, albeit a little churlish, to suggest the tourbillon movement could be subjected to a ...

After completing a months-long build process of a model of a 1903 Wright brothers glider, the Avon Free Public Library has turned its attention to another lengthy process. It is working with members ...

Classic or contemporary? One of the 10 people lucky enough to acquire De Bethune’s newest limited edition timepiece won’t have to choose. The DB Kind of Two Tourbillon is endowed with two distinct ...

Six dazzling timepieces for women feature tourbillons, the mechanism in a spinning cage, invented nearly 220 years ago, that counteracts the effect of gravity By Laurie Brookins Freelance Contributor ...