2011-04-12

Complicated Craft - Tourbillon

Watch News Center Report: Face plate shall be made by rotating through a transmission gear driven by the movement, to some extent can be regarded as an extension of the form of movement, so if the face plate into the rotary movement to show functions as an interface, then rotate face plate will be from a purely visual art to further enhance the level of technology.


Show the complex process of functional

In general, be able to use the combination of the rotating face plate is more presented capabilities, of course, also has its own "spin" feature better, like the Tourbillon or Caruso. Caruso first tourbillon or often in the design of the presentation as exposed, followed by the two devices are encapsulated in the framework of a constantly rotating operation, the rotation of the framework will do the design combined with the other, can produce a lot of possibilities.

More well known example is the Ulysse Nardin Freak, watch this highly controversial, and its design concept is to the entire outside of barrel used as a pointer around the gold watch movement running load gear and escapement from the Department of face plate to hide the box spring under a huge drive, escapement gear train system back to the frequency of the control of the operation rate of the gear, but also to allow escapement objective of the rotation as tourbillon escapement as to offset the one-way by the adverse effects of gravity. Points of view, Freak watch is the watch should be charged on the history of a revolutionary design, even in the early emergence because of excessive energy consumption and performance of the movement problems of instability, but later on after another in trying to use escape system new material, is significantly reduced escapement Department of Energy, to enhance the stability and functional performance, but also as a professional watchmaking pioneer in the use of silicon material; even by the year 2010 but also to replace the two-way switch tourbillon escapement, make this a truly Tourbillon Freak Diavolo Caruso fit mixed with the devil.

The other, a tourbillon and rotating with the same face plate design, but was released has caused a sensation in the works is a Breguet watch of the 5347 pairs of rotating Tourbillon TwinRotating Tourbillon. After all, Breguet tourbillon device, as the inventor of the tourbillon device to play some quite reasonable ideas. This is a double rotation can be considered to some extent Tourbillon Breguet heritage watch the master to provide more accurate and swatch operation of the invention of the original intention of tourbillon device, the rotation at the same time by two separate bypass tourbillon device revolution correction of dual frequency operation, and then to get back to watch the average frequency of operating frequency as a "theory" is to enhance the expression of twice the accuracy of the wrist. By design, the two rotating tourbillon watch escapement structure consists of a rotating disk of the bearing surface by the individual drive gear-driven, two axis tourbillon device structure through a unique link to the central rotating face plate and time display mechanism, the average frequency of the two tourbillon movement passed back, rotating disk surface during the revolution, driven by double tourbillon with 12-hour cycle of operation, so the bar connecting the two tourbillon was extended as an indicator hour hand.

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