Sotheby's will honor Abraham-Louis Breguet with a dedicated auction celebrating the 250th anniversary of the foundation of ...

Pocket watch accuracy was greatly improved when the ... a kind of anti-gravity chamber that he called a tourbillon, a French word meaning ‘whirlwind’. A single-axis tourbillon in motion.

The Israeli museum that owns the famous creation by Breguet had been loath to lend it, but then the Science Museum in London ...

A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by ...

Like all good inventions, the tourbillon was created to solve a problem – in this case, how the pull of gravity interferes with the moving components of a mechanical pocket watch. Since the ...

It may only run for a brief time, and it’s too big for use in an actual wristwatch, but this 3D-printed tourbillon is a great demonstration of the lengths watchmakers will go to to keep ...

Showcasing a material innovation from the manufacture's Metallurgy & Materials laboratory, the novelty combines an intense ...

Haute horlogerie is given a vibrant spin by artist Felipe Pantone, who has once again united with Zenith for a special edition watch. The Defy Skyline Tourbillon Felipe Pantone marks the third series ...