Tourbillon 1 - Movement Build Video

Thank you Paul, I couldn’t agree more on just how amazing everything seamlessly fits together. As well each of the small visible parts have been decorated to various degrees. There is so much detail to be found. I will post some images of these details in an upcoming post. With regards to torque, in the series production we use an automatic mechanical screwdriver that is set to the correct torque for each screw. However for video we went with the traditional hand screwdriver as it’s a little less bulky and looks nicer on camera.

Thank you very much Andrew. It truly is incredible how much work goes into these timepieces. Assembly all happens by hand and an eye for detail and steady hand required through the entire process. As you mentioned there are also the specialized tools that our team has to engineer and build themselves. Each time I see a new tool that has been built I really am blown away at just how impressive of a feat true in-house movement development is.

Thank you again 👍.

This is a great question as it's not the easiest to sum up. The watch movement in the video is one movement being assembled from the ground up and it took about an hour from start to finish. What one doesn't see in the video There is the amount of preparation happening behind the scenes. The prep also involves gathering all the parts to make the movement and included a major assembly stage which is the tourbillon cage.

If a watchmaker has more movements to build they just need to gather more parts from inventory. Keep in mind inventory is based on what they engineer and develop themselves, there are no parts developed outside our walls.

In series production we assemble multiple movements at the same time by assembling them in sections and this is far more efficient than each one being built individually from start to finish.

A step before the gathering of parts for production is T-zero. In T-zero we build up parts into components. One such T-zero step is the setting of jewels in the bridges.

There is a lot of preparation to do for series production, but once the wheels are in motion we can go from movement to watch in a much more timely manner.

These videos make it look quite easy, but there is great depth and preparation needed for the 101 parts that make up the Tourbillon 1.

Thank you. 👍

We can't wait to get the watch on your wrist! Very happy you enjoyed the video. Thank you!