Secrets of Tiffin Ohio

maximusben1 (November 22, 2008 at 10:41 pm)

you're absolutly right, Tourbillons are completly pointless on a wrist watch, they were designed for pocket watches. Now with automatic movement on wristwatch, you can get high precision watches ( around +- 4 seconds a day) without a tourbillon. However, if your watch is always in the vertical position for some reason (like pocket watch) then a tourbillon helps correcting the effect of gravity.

covertbabo (November 19, 2008 at 10:18 pm)

It neutralizes the effect of gravity. The bottom line is that it's completely unnecessary for timekeeping itself, and the whole purpose is to produce something complicated and expensive.

woodpecker26175 (November 15, 2008 at 8:46 pm)

What is the tourbillon benefit?
Wish i could buy those watches...

vpoRU (November 13, 2008 at 2:23 pm)

Awesome!!!