Generally speaking, tourbillon watches are the most expensive watches of all time. Tourbillon is a watch mechanism invented by Frenchman Abraham-Louis Breguet, one of the most respected watch makers of all time, in the late 1790s. The tourbillon mechanism is an ingeniously complicated and delicate watch mechanism. Even in the [...] Read more »
Why Are Tourbillon Watch Prices So High?
The tourbillon is an amazing feature typically only found in fine luxury timepieces. This classic watchmaker’s complication was invented in around 1795 by the French Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Luis Breguet, inspired by an earlier clock design by Englishman John Arnold. The mechanism of tourbillon is very complicated and extremely difficult to [...] Read more »