Showing posts with label Tourbillon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tourbillon. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Glashutte PanoTourbillon XL on JamesList.com

So I was perusing this great new website, JamesList.com. It is sort of like a rich man's version of Craigslist. It really has some of the most unique (expensive!) toys I have ever seen in one place. The best part, all of them are for sale.

Take for instance this stunning Glashutte Pano Tourbillon XL This is a new version of the most complicated watch movement equipped with minute tourbillon by Glashutte Original. The dial of the watch is divided into two parts: the upper one is silver and shows the tourbillon indications; the lower one is galvanized and contains the dial with minute and hour hands and two arc scales of date indicator and mainspring winding indicator. The tourbillon, the most demanding of all complications, was perfected by Glashutte master watchmaker Alfred Helwig. In a so-called “Flying Tourbillon”, the balance, pallets, and escapement wheel are located in a cantilevered carriage.

The case is a 42mm round design in 18k white gold. The case back is a sapphire exhibition crystal that exposes the spokes of the balance wheel and other components. An alligator leather strap with 18k buckle pulls it all together.

The list price for this piece is usually close to the $115,000. USD mark but you can have the one on JamesList for the bargain price of $99,000. USD. Check out the listing here and feel free to make an offer.

Monday, January 19, 2009

SIHH 2009 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Perpétuel Calender


Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande
Tradition Tourbillon Perpétuel Calender

Movement:

Mechanical automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 987, crafted, assembled and decorated by hand
28,800 vibrations per hour
48-hour power reserve
401 parts (yellow gold version), 403 (pink gold and platinum version)
47 jewels (yellow gold version), 49 (pink gold and platinum version)
8.15 mm thick
Silicon escapement on the limited series in 18-carat yellow gold

Functions:
Hours, minutes, small seconds, tourbillon, perpetual calendar and moon phases

Dial:
Velvet-finished, one part adorned with a Clous de Paris hobnail motif and featuring applied 18 carat gilded hour-markers and logo

Hands:
Gilded Dauphines Tradition style

Crown:
New construction with extremely fine fluting

Case:
42 mm in diameter, available in platinum, 18-carat pink gold and in a limited series of 300 in 18-carat yellow gold on the limited series: sapphire crystal case-back with integrated magnifying glass providing an enlarged vision of the silicon escapement
water-resistant to 5 atm

Straps:
Alligator leather with folding clasp in 18-carat white, pink or yellow gold