WTF (tourby content)

[cyberface]

Now I love tourbillons, I'd love to own one but I'm only ever realistically going to be able to afford one of the new Chinese ones (some of which are reasonably tasteful, I guess) which is a shame - a Breguet tourby would be the ultimate 'über-formal' watch for me, given that I love Breguet and he invented the damn thing.

But WTF is going on here? Apparently 4 tourbillons. I can only see two (well two visible escapements) but surely you'd need a mainspring the size of an entire Panerai case to run something like this????

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=OPVB8-SIjiU&feat...

Sheeeeeer mentalism.

[WTD]

from the comments on that video:

YoutubeComment said:

Not a quadruple tourbillon in the sense that it has four independent tourbillons (now that would be overkill!), but it has two tourbillons with double motion- the tourbillon itself makes one revolution per minute, and the outer cage makes a full revolution once every ten minutes.

Edited by WTD on Saturday 24th May 04:30