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9 watch stories from 2009
2009 started as a difficult year for everyone, but while established watch makers took the hits with dignity, younger brands where betting on their flexibility and agility to adapt to new economic realities. The Chinese ideograms for “crisis” is 危機, where 危 alone means “danger”, while 機 has also the meaning of “opportunity”. I’m looking [...]
GREUBEL FORSEY Quadruple tourbillon à différentiel sphérique
Extraordinary choreography
Thanks to this uncompromising creation, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have reaffirmed themselves as authentic inventors, using the mechanical timepiece as their means of expression.
The Quadruple Tourbillon à Différentiel is a blend of art and technical innovation which encapsulates the very soul of its the two creators.
Transparent sapphire bridges were specifically chosen to allow [...]
Greubel Forsey Invention Piece 1
Honoring the first invention
The Invention Piece 1 embodies Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey’s wish to honor the Double Tourbillon 30° and to raise the bar yet another notch by opening up whole new vistas for their first major invention. Both the architecture of the movement and the display of information symbolize the four years of [...]
GREUBEL FORSEY Double Tourbillon 30°
From the pocket to the wrist…
200 years earlier
“Give me the perfect oil, and I will give you the perfect watch,” said Abraham Louis Breguet, the watchmaker from Neuchâtel who invented the Tourbillon regulator and who lived in Par is dur ing the Age of Enlightenment.
Two centuries later and 50 years after the adaptation of his [...]
