Watch News: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon Universal Wheel
This could sound like a bit of an hyperbole, but we think we're watching history. While it is true which mechanical watchmaking is considerably dated from a precision in addition to accuracy perspective, innovation throughout contemporary mechanical watchmaking hasn't stopped at all as we have got better and cheaper quartz or assisted quartz devices. There are still some giants carrying out research and innovation to further improve traditional technologies with brand new materials and/or manufacturing. But rarely do we see the launch of a new type of creativity - what Greubel Forsey calls the eighth essential invention. New tourbillon, tourbillon universal joint. Patented fresh tourbillon.
Design and style and watch specifications Ti, 45. 50 mm (bezel - 46. 00 mm) x 18. 15 millimeter (13. 81 mm with no crystal) case, 30 meters water-resistant
Multi-layered gold dial, skeletonized main ingredients, circular textured and personalized lacquered minute track, lustrous flanks, gold hour marker pens, gold small seconds as well as power reserve indicator - Imprinted and lacquered polished iron hands, engraved and colored GF logo
nonanimal material, hand-stitched straps, titanium folding clasp
This watch may stand out. Some individual elements take craftsmen three days and nights to polish, while others, including the arches of the tourbillon dog crate, require barrel polishing, which usually alone takes 30 time to complete this single aspect. While it may not be as big as typically the numbers suggest, it's continue to a statement. Titanium case outfitted by domed sapphire uric acid, bezel and strap hand-finished, hand-stamped background, polished decoration on case. The case will be 45. 5mm, the board is 46mm, the Case 7 is 13. 81mm, or perhaps 18. 15mm if assessed with the high domed ravenscroft - think MB& N style. The titanium the queen's and titanium folding form are both signed.
The dial showcases GF’s incredible craftsmanship. It is created from gold, with multi-layered and also skeletonized pillars, an customized and painted minute band, and polished sides that will reflect the mirror graphic of the tourbillon at particular angles. The applied hour or so markers, small seconds along with power reserve indicator are all crafted from gold. The GF company logo is also engraved and decorated. With such superb attractive technology, GF still made a decision to make it a timepiece well suited for daily wear and included Superluminova to the hour in addition to minute hands. The call is slightly offset total, with the hours and mins at 1: 30, often the equally sized universal tourbillon at 7: 30, the tiny seconds at 4: fifty, and the power reserve at 15: 30.
The truth is simple but exquisitely created. The crown is flawlessly sized as it is the only way to be able to interact with the movement. You will have to interact with it from time to time, although not as often as you might think because this hand-wound watch has a extremely healthy 80-hour power reserve. This is certainly achieved by 4 barrels connected in series, converting every 2 . 7 a long time. There's something else worth noticing buried in the spec linen. Typically, hand-wound movements are deprived of sliding springs to prevent over-winding like automatic movements. This implies you will feel the mainspring totally wound due to the resistance in the crown. In this case, to avoid over-tensioning, GF chose to still set a slip plate inside a barrel to avoid this over-tensioning because you can check the power reserve about the indicator so you know if the watch's 80 full storage area hours are reached. Actually , that's not the case - the strength reserve is higher than in which - but for these 70 hours, GF guarantees it is tight precision tolerances.
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move Cardon tourbillon, manual rotating, hours + minutes and up. small seconds, 3. 5Hz, 80 hours power reserve
Four coaxial with a friend fast-rotating barrels (one innovation in 2 . 7 hours), one with sliding early spring to avoid excessive tension, printed text, internal variable inertia with 6 gold synchronizing screws
Since already mentioned above, the mobility was clearly the superstar of the show and when considering the specs we figured out a lot about new systems and ways of doing items. Some examples are Phillips port curve balance springs together with Geneva style studs. The particular movement is equipped with a general tourbillon. What’s so specific about this tourbillon? Its circumstance is composed of 98 parts as well as weighs just 0. 80 grams, weighing less than a single gram - the entire motion is made up of 389 parts and also 49 jewels. The balance is quite large for a 12. 6mm tourbillon (39mm for the entire movement), which means higher inertia along with optimized vibrations, helping to minimize shocks and limit velocity changes. The tourbillon parrot cage rotates completely in a very quickly 16 seconds (as against the traditional 60 seconds), and so a small seconds hand has been added to the dial : if the tourbillon rotated every single 60 seconds, this function would certainly usually be taken over from the tourbillon itself. Another diverse principle is the 30 education angle, which improves their use of the watch, rather than the original thought (vertical), which would suit any pocket watch. The third brand-new principle applied in this tourbillon is that the 30-degree high-speed tourbillon frame is guided simply by two moving rings in addition to connected by two 90-degree axes. Over the course of 48 mere seconds, they tilt forward as well as back. Another measure obtained was to ensure a better angular velocity ratio and of course reliability.
To demonstrate this, the movement’s coatings include “black flat refined stainless steel tourbillon bridge, finished chamfers and countersunk openings, circular graining, straight grained sides; ” along with “barrel polished and hand-bevelled gimbal Flywheel " The movements also features a polished and also hand-chamfered external flying gimbal with straight grained sides"
Reflecting for the status quo - fundamentally deconstructing specific principles and producing new ones, inventing completely new major complications, shows that you can still find good minds in the horological industry world, and there is still area for improvement in modern day mechanical watchmaking. Whether Greubel Forsey’s universal tourbillon in fact “reaches new heights regarding chronometric precision” remains to be noticed. We can confirm this even as we have our first hands-on tests and accuracy lab tests. However , you can’t deny this GF is using its outstanding talents to rethink, remodel and reinvent at least several parts of the watchmaking market. It's fascinating to combine this into a stunningly technical but beautiful watch that is in any other case still perfectly wearable on a regular basis. Obviously, one needs to be able to use a 45. 5mm watch using a total height of eighteen mm including the crystal - consequently there’s a caveat. But if you act like you want the absolute latest with haute horlogerie, with perfect finishing and something that is most likely the pinnacle of watchmaking analysis using traditional techniques, or even the best in the world, then this will be the watch for you.