Photo upload test
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twouvakind
Site Donor 2024
Test
closeup test
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
A tourbillon (sp?)closeup test
Oh no, just a regular balance wheel and escapement. The balance wheel is a bit fancy because it contains micro-balancing screws and there is a swan neck regulator with micro-adjustment screw. That's a 100-year-old watch. I was only trying out a macro lens and I also wanted to see if the image host was going to add compression artifacts.
A tourbillon made sense in a ship's chronometer a long time ago. It's not a feature I would want in a wristwatch where it's merely a pretty complication without any significant benefit in terms of accuracy and precision. The Chinese have tourbillons starting at about $700 while the cheapest Swiss one would start at $5,000 but most of them cost in the tens of thousands. Servicing the Chinese cheapie would far exceed the cost of the watch making this a disposable watch. Servicing a Swiss-made tourbillon will cost near or above $2,000 depending on what other complications the watch has.
