Finding a tourbillon watch for this price is rarer than rare.
At the loftiest heights of watchmaking, the tourbillon is a particularly celebrated curiosity. It was invented to at the beginning of the 19th century to solve a particularly thorny problem for watch owners. Pocket watches, see, tended to be worn on a fob chain and, when not in use, they would sit vertically in little waistcoat pockets, or left lying horizontally on a desk.
Breguet’s "aha" moment came in 1795, when he realised that housing the escapement, the balance spring and the balance wheel in a constantly rotating mechanism would largely negate the effects of gravity. The tourbillon remains the pinnacle of watchmaking prowess at the highest levels—something of a litmus test of the chops of a serious watchmaking house. And it’s usually very expensive indeed.
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