Its actually quite rare to find a marketing director that is so knowledgeable about the actual physics and engineering that went into the product. You could see he is proud to present this watch.
JLC is the Einstein of the mechanical watch world. Their mechanical mastery is legendary. For decades JLC provided the best watch brands like Patek with their movements. If anyone wants to own the world’s best mechanical watch, get a JLC.
That has to be one of the most beautiful mechanical masterpieces ever created by the human hand. That gyro has an organic primeval quality, like the pumping heart of a new-born mythical beast
I'm going to guess that for that price I could buy the micro CNC milling and forming machines necessary to make one of these myself. Also: why aluminum? Beryllium is lighter and stronger, but it is harder to work with. You are paying half a million peso's though. Its certainly no harder to machine than the gems.
With all of the arcane-level knowledge, design, manufacturing, and assembly that goes into something like this, they could honestly get away with charging double that. A half million dollars for a device like this is seriously a good deal. This isn't something I could ever, ever afford, but I know well enough what I'm looking at to be a little shocked that it's only half a million.
You might be able to buy the tools to manufacture it, sure, but knowing how to use those tools without running through 50 attempts at one part, knowing where to get the materials, knowing how to design and manufacture a SPHERICAL HAIR SPRING, and having the skills to make all of that happen with no mistakes is worth so much more than a desktop CNC tool station. If I gave you an engine lathe and access to a foundry, you could probably eventually turn out a Bentley W12 engine, but you wouldn't be saving any money at the end.
After seven years, this is still a stunning piece of engineering genius. I have to wonder when Jaeger-LeCoultre produces a new Gyrotourbillon which is half the size of the current masterpiece.
In a wristwatch you can't predict the orientation of the watch due to the movement of the wearer's hand. This variation in orientation will introduce inaccuracy because the timekeeping elements will be affected by gravity in unpredictable ways. The gyrotourbillion constantly rotates the timekeeping elements. With this constant rotation, the error due to gravity is evened out. That being said, in practice a gyrotourbillion is watchmaker bling-bling. Makes rich people shell out hella money for the rotating doodad that looks cool.
wtf is a dictionary or the internet...possibly the easiest way to find out what stuff means - oh and its right here - right now - right at your fingertips but dont bother post a question instead - lmao.
@kappelmeister123 "The tourbillion does exactly this as you move your wrist" I don't think you understand what a tourbillon is. A tourbillon forces the rotation of the balance wheel through all possible angles. This way the effects of gravity are averaged out in all directions. The gimbals used in ship's clocks keep the clock oriented in the same direction independent of the level of the deck. A tourbillon is not free to move in a set of gimbals. The motion around the axis is constant. While theoretically a tourbillon could possibly improve the accuracy of a watch, in practice it doesn't. Tourbillons are just cool. There's not much about a mechanical watch which is practical anyway. They're just really cool pieces of machinery once can wear. Many inexpensive quartz watches keep much better time than best mechanical watches. "one of the most important human engineering feats was designing a ship's clock that kept accurate time as it crossed the ocean." I completely agree with you here. Some of the marine chronometers are some of the coolest (and in their time practical) machines made.
@kappelmeister123 This comment adds to my earlier reply to you. I found a mechanism which is similar to the gimbals used in a ship's chronometer. The video *Crazy Gyroscopic Escapement Module with Zenith Watches* shows Zenith's escapement which levels itself. It's also a very cool looking mechanism but it different than the one shown in the video above. I'm not sure which mechanism I like better. I'll probably need to get one of each. Cheers.
This is art. Art and function. Beautiful and masterful, ingenious design. Has the old hurdle of gravity been conquered in watch making? What a gorgeous design that hypnotizes the viewer. Watch makers will be stopped in their steps with this piece of aesthetically pleasing art. Definitely not a watch for all.
@@shachar2 Which is already done naturally in a wrist watch because it's on your arm, and you kind of move your arm in all directions. Tourbillons were designed for pocket watches which lived their lives in a vertical position most of the time, meaning that one end of the balance will get a different force acting on it than the other. Tourbillons on a wrist watch are pretty much useless for timekeeping accuracy, they're done for the coolness and engineering challenge of it.
@It’s not difficult to make a watch, whether it’s a tourbillon or anything else, it’s the 21st century now. Brand is the most important in the eyes of consumers. So, you can say who can’t make a brand, but don’t say who can’t make a watch .But it doesn't matter, please continue to maintain your inherent image of China.
Thanks to China and Chinese ppl, they showed to the world that all this shit was nothing exceptional, I love how China and Chinese ppl debunked all those companies that were making things so expensive just because they thought nobody could one day make the same or better lol.
@@paradhoax We got little pinks here. You want to see what Chinese at full potential look like? got to *Taiwan.* Taiwanese are the Chinese people without the boot of the CCP on their necks. Anyone who sees mainland China and their tofu dreg projects, their brand new buildings and roads crumbling and collapsing, their hot pot oils recycled from trash cans and gutters, their EV cars and scooters spontaneously bursting into flames, will understand why China is called *the land of cutting corners and facades.*
A tourbillon watch is something I know I will probably never own but it doesn't stop one from appreciating the fine mechanisms and beautiful precision of it as a piece of original artwork. After watching this it makes you appreciate why such amazing time pieces cost as much as they do. Simply put, breath taking......
It’s honestly pretty easy to prove. Take a dollar store cheapo magnet and pick up a paper clip. The paper clip lifts therefore magnetism must be stronger than gravity. Think about that. A piece of shit dollar store magnet has more force than the gravity of the entire planet. The theory of gravity is a combination of density, buoyancy, and magnetism laws. There is no gravity. Only density and magnetism. Things that fall to earth only fall because they are more dense than the atmosphere. (Think of hot air balloons). Our air is just like the liquid of an ocean-things either float or sink, based on their density relative to the surrounding matter.
+Astinger69 Well that tears it, I asked specifically about the effect of gravity on the watch when I bought it and the girl behind the counter at Kmart told me not to worry. I knew I shoulda busted out another 600 grand for the Gyrotourbillon. You get what you pay for. Lesson learned.
Not to worry, all of space time is bent (Dangit gravity!) around the planet as well, which is bent around the solar system... which is bent around the galaxy... so on and so forth.... So if you find your watch to be off just say it's calibrated to a different space time :D.
Quarter of a million dollars.. Yep, you try and make that.. Cannot even understand how far we have come as a society and this watch proves it.. It is just stunning the complexity.. True genius work of art.
Yes, that's also what we appreciate with this demonstration of human ingenuity, especially when you put this back in perspective of how watchmakers worked 200 years ago!! Here's a video in this direction we published recently that you might like: th-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/w-d-xo.html All the best
A survivor No, I'm sorry. The 1000 mini gears and 50 bearings orbiting like that brings tears to my eyes at how sophisticated mechanical engineers are.. It's all about perspective.
you said it. I am extremely interested in the ingenious mechanical portion here. Are you like two? Tell me where to start on a quartz watch let alone this one.. You have no idea.
To be honest, the tourbillon mechanic looks far less complex than a regular mechanical clockwork. But fair enough, they probably had a scedule of a few years while the classic clockwork has evolved over centuries.
Je comprend la langue anglaise ; je vois des commentaires négatifs en anglais ; je leurs dis "bande de jaloux !" Cette oeuvre d'art est vraiment magnifique !
Ahmad Dakhlallah if you cannot buy this, you are not poor. You are not rich enough. And that's a big difference. I'm not poor, but still cannot buy this.
Thank you for making this watch video. I am always very interested in watches, I don't know why. I really enjoyed watching this video. I would love to purchase such a watch someday. That looks like a piece of art.
Indeed art, something poetic and will remain like this. Have you seen this recent video that really illustrates this too: th-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/w-d-xo.html All the best
Tourbillon is french word for " Whirlwind. " In a watch , tourbillon is a moving & rotating mechanism to reduce the effects of the gravity pulls & the movement inertia that gradually slows down the precision of the time. It is mesmerizing to watch a well & elegantly made tourbillon in motion indeed! Thank You So Much for this informative & enjoyable tutorial on tourbillon! 😊🙏🌷🌿🌏🕊🇫🇷🇨🇭
+Freezyboy23 Mechanical reverse-engineering isn't that difficult. Manufacturing would be a longer process without the advanced CNC machinery used by the big guys...
Amazing watch making, very glad that what on first glance is a superficial trend for larger watches was the catalyst for something much more meaningful
Since every moving component is a metal object held in position by another metal object, how long does it stay properly lubricated before it has to be serviced? Any metal-on-metal contact points will create friction ; it must require constant expert maintenance?
Tourbillon is a French word. Are you suggesting that a Frenchman doesn't know how to say it? I'm not French, but I speak the language fluently, and the way he says it sounds just fine to me.
+dudeinthesea As electronic engineer and software developer I want to say that to develop software and electronic circuits is art too. But mechanical and electronic hardware cannot be compared in same reason why you cannot compare apples and cheese. Someone like nuts, someone like apples. I like both
Roman I generally find Engineering as a form of art/craftmanship :) . My standard of art happens to be about the mastery of technical skills to the highest level through years of research and training. I just really like old-world crafts since it require so much skills so when i see very bull-crap overpriced art nowadays by hippies on drugs, it kinda gets to me lol.
+Roman agreed, but the level of craftsmanship dedicated to make this kind of watch is far greater and more exclusive. imagine to make a 14nm chip out of hand:)
+YuJia Liu Sorry, but I disagree! We can not be stuck in the age of manual craftsmanship! The future humanity will appreciate the craftsmanship of Michelangelo and Bernini, cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale and co-axial escapement inventor George Daniels, but as the great Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pronounced: "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever". Clockmaking - is the cradle! The Silicon Valley geniuses are the coryphaeus of the present and the future! Without information technology fits the humanity will be stuck forever in the cradle! And please don't say that encrypting and coding demands lesser abstract, spacial and logical kind of thinking than the thinking of the mechanical masters of the past! It is absolutely marvellous that hundreds of million people have, - thanks to the higher productivity and hence far lesser cost, - the access to the amazing wonders of computer engineering! I dread to wake up in the previous centuries!
I partly agree with u, technology moves humanity forward, but things like this and lots others like hand build high end cars, hand made jewelry, fine wines and great paintings are the fuel to those people who bring us those technology:)
You gave some gears to y x axis. In regards to gravity, watches are not static or moved slowly, imaging constantly dropping it on a hard surface or the wearer being a jogger, you see it's not the angle but the force of change in angles. What a great piece. BRAVO.
Some watches, like Breitling Navitimer has a built in sliderule ( Yes, a calculator without need for a battery), but most people nowadays don't even know how to work with a sliderule.. Too bad people are slowly turning "Stoopid" :)
This level of mechanical genius leaves one such as myself awestruck while admiring the design, construction and the complexity of this most marvelous tiny machine.A true piece of mechanical art worthy of it's own place in a museum.Five stars!!
Except that the "Prius" keeps better time... (Yes, I know. People who lust after this watch are not looking for a timepiece, but for mechanical art. Doesn't ring my chimes, but different strokes and all that.)
This makes me wonder. Could there be any benefit to having circuits printed in a 3D space instead of on flat 2D boards? Like veins in an inert block of material that could conform to any shape it needs to.
Probably possible, and might become more practical with something like a advanced multi-matirials 3D printer only trick might be inserted the actual electrical component and not cooking them while trying to print around them
"It's precise because it is not effected by the effect of gravity." The inventors of this deserve a Nobel prize for inventing the first matter that isn't effected by gravitational time dilation.
Anthony Trupian well unless it imptoves gps idk about a nobel. But im inclined to beleive this thing would still be slowed relitistically by orbiting a black hole
Smartwatches have their own purpose in the modern world, quartz watches are made to keep perfect time, mechanical watches are art, yes, maybe nostagic, but often are used just as status symbol.
I'd say mechanical watches are jewellery. With all it's pros and cons. I just regret that so much clever craftsmanship and engeneering and innovation time goes into an outdated technology where it could surely find good use in other products that are still mechanical AND state of the art... But timekeeping... well... it's like a whole part of car industry specializing on building Oldtimer cars... but.... world seems to need jewellery and brand managment has it's own goals...
dude wtf we did this and my brother in law is in the hospital now, he has to eat through a tube to his belly for the rest of his life, thank you very much
The point of these watches are much more than to tell accurate time. There is a reason they cost so much. You pay for the thousands of man hours someone spent in designing and expensive machining needed to create these mechanical marvels .
This watch is jewelry, a sculpture you wear, the functionality is secondary, to give you a reason to wear it. I would NEVER buy anything like this, but understand that much.
"Archimedes himself began the construction with little more than a mirror alignment; Da Vinci added the gearings; Newton, the lenses; Galileo, the prisms; all of the great poets, painters, scientists, alchemists, and philosophers, have had the Orb in their hands!" "But what *is* it?" "Some say it is a weapon of catastrophic proportions. I believe it to be a type of engine; self-sustaining, and of endless power! I believe this, Sandow, because I am a man of hope."
that is very true. I don't know why the fact that quartz mechs are much more accurate than autos hurts peoples feelings. I don't mind that my 8000$ submariner is less accurate than your 10$ casio... my Rolex will last 100s of years, its a work of art, it holds and gains value, and more importantly its not built in a Chinese sweat shop, its built in state of the art facilities that pay their workers enough to live upper middle class lives and the watch itself is a work of art, timeless, a conversation piece, and makes peoples day. I love when I'm at work and a customer sees my watch and asks to see it and just stares at it in amazement and takes pictures... it doesn't make me feel "special" but its that fact that these little marvels of engineering ARE special...
its a luxery object, peoply with some respect for craftmanship and the available cash can and do appreciate something like that. and i think this thing is fucking awsome. I never wear watches, ever, and i probably wont, but this a bit bigger at home? awsome.
I do own a phone but i use a wristwatch to tell me the time. Not going to search for my damn phone or try and dig it out of my pockets, along with my keys, billfold, etc.,just to look at the fucking time. Took me a microsecond to glance at my wrist. Too many people are constantly glued to those stupid phones, and we wonder why everyone is so damn stupid.
James Cree what is the point? invest and develop technology to make something complicated, inefficient, expensive, and useless that doesn't even work properly? if that watch was a car it would use 200L of petrol in 1 km. it would be very big and clunky, it would break every time the road gets a little rough and wouldn;t function a whole day without once having engine problems... oh but it;s shiny and looks cool... wich is not the point of having a car.
James Cree art yes, but art means 1 watch. did DaVinci paint more than 1 monalisa . no and that is art... making 100 of these watches to sell to idiots is not art.
It`s swinging back and forth from the power of the main spring. This video ( th-cam.com/video/9_QsCLYs2mY/w-d-xo.html ) explains the basics of mechanical movements quite well. ;) have fun
I have never heard of the word "tourbillon" until this video and I have now heard it 124 times.
Well that was a good introduction then ;)
And I just gave you your 124th like. Yeehah!
mmh he told it only 16 times only. But it sound like he told it 124 times.
So now, of course, TH-cam is recommending dozens of videos about tourbillons ...
@@CocktaiLMolotovX Thanks for counting. You must be fun at parties.
Its actually quite rare to find a marketing director that is so knowledgeable about the actual physics and engineering that went into the product. You could see he is proud to present this watch.
JLC is the Einstein of the mechanical watch world. Their mechanical mastery is legendary. For decades JLC provided the best watch brands like Patek with their movements. If anyone wants to own the world’s best mechanical watch, get a JLC.
That's true. Marketing guys usually are clowns but this person seems to really know the details!
I wonder why he doesn't wear his own product.
@@markheit5870 so he can display the new one, while wearing ANOTHER JLC watch. why so negative?
That has to be one of the most beautiful mechanical masterpieces ever created by the human hand. That gyro has an organic primeval quality, like the pumping heart of a new-born mythical beast
Would not care about the time,spend all of it watching and marvelling at how beautiful it is! Engineering perfection.
I love that the full mechanism is visible through the front face. It would be a crime to hide something that beautiful.
That's totally right!!!
its perfect. beats just like a heart. its the human equivalent of see through skin.
Only *half a million*?? Dang, I'll take *three*!!!
Do they offer the *economy shipping* option?
No, but for ordering three, you will have a free meal at McDonalds
As long as it is a *happy meal*... it's a deal!
I'm going to guess that for that price I could buy the micro CNC milling and forming machines necessary to make one of these myself.
Also: why aluminum? Beryllium is lighter and stronger, but it is harder to work with. You are paying half a million peso's though. Its certainly no harder to machine than the gems.
With all of the arcane-level knowledge, design, manufacturing, and assembly that goes into something like this, they could honestly get away with charging double that. A half million dollars for a device like this is seriously a good deal. This isn't something I could ever, ever afford, but I know well enough what I'm looking at to be a little shocked that it's only half a million.
You might be able to buy the tools to manufacture it, sure, but knowing how to use those tools without running through 50 attempts at one part, knowing where to get the materials, knowing how to design and manufacture a SPHERICAL HAIR SPRING, and having the skills to make all of that happen with no mistakes is worth so much more than a desktop CNC tool station.
If I gave you an engine lathe and access to a foundry, you could probably eventually turn out a Bentley W12 engine, but you wouldn't be saving any money at the end.
Gotta hand it to the TH-cam algorithm. Every once in a while it actually suggests interesting videos.
a broken clock is right twice a day (I got here by yt recommendation too)
After seven years, this is still a stunning piece of engineering genius.
I have to wonder when Jaeger-LeCoultre produces a new Gyrotourbillon which is half the size of the current masterpiece.
WTF is a gyrotourbillon ? After watching this, I still think it opens a time portal.
In a wristwatch you can't predict the orientation of the watch due to the movement of the wearer's hand. This variation in orientation will introduce inaccuracy because the timekeeping elements will be affected by gravity in unpredictable ways. The gyrotourbillion constantly rotates the timekeeping elements. With this constant rotation, the error due to gravity is evened out. That being said, in practice a gyrotourbillion is watchmaker bling-bling. Makes rich people shell out hella money for the rotating doodad that looks cool.
wtf is a dictionary or the internet...possibly the easiest way to find out what stuff means - oh and its right here - right now - right at your fingertips but dont bother post a question instead - lmao.
@kappelmeister123 "The tourbillion does exactly this as you move your wrist"
I don't think you understand what a tourbillon is. A tourbillon forces the rotation of the balance wheel through all possible angles. This way the effects of gravity are averaged out in all directions.
The gimbals used in ship's clocks keep the clock oriented in the same direction independent of the level of the deck. A tourbillon is not free to move in a set of gimbals. The motion around the axis is constant.
While theoretically a tourbillon could possibly improve the accuracy of a watch, in practice it doesn't. Tourbillons are just cool. There's not much about a mechanical watch which is practical anyway. They're just really cool pieces of machinery once can wear. Many inexpensive quartz watches keep much better time than best mechanical watches.
"one of the most important human engineering feats was designing a ship's clock that kept accurate time as it crossed the ocean."
I completely agree with you here. Some of the marine chronometers are some of the coolest (and in their time practical) machines made.
@kappelmeister123 This comment adds to my earlier reply to you. I found a mechanism which is similar to the gimbals used in a ship's chronometer. The video *Crazy Gyroscopic Escapement Module with Zenith Watches* shows Zenith's escapement which levels itself. It's also a very cool looking mechanism but it different than the one shown in the video above.
I'm not sure which mechanism I like better. I'll probably need to get one of each.
Cheers.
@@GB3770 for others to easily scroll down and see an answer. But instead I have to see your toxicity. You are a sad person.
It reminds me of a centurion dynamo core from skyrim.
Fishhunter2014 omfg me too!
:-)
but can it run ....
Same
You are a person of culture and i salute you
This is art. Art and function. Beautiful and masterful, ingenious design. Has the old hurdle of gravity been conquered in watch making? What a gorgeous design that hypnotizes the viewer. Watch makers will be stopped in their steps with this piece of aesthetically pleasing art. Definitely not a watch for all.
if you heard him, it's more accurate by 'distributing' the errors across the various positions.
@@shachar2 Which is already done naturally in a wrist watch because it's on your arm, and you kind of move your arm in all directions. Tourbillons were designed for pocket watches which lived their lives in a vertical position most of the time, meaning that one end of the balance will get a different force acting on it than the other.
Tourbillons on a wrist watch are pretty much useless for timekeeping accuracy, they're done for the coolness and engineering challenge of it.
It's really the opposite of function. If you want function you buy a quartz 2dollar watch will keep time 1000x better than this.
Just one question: what's a tourbillon?
french word for swirl
Mechanical component that essentially counter acts the affect of gravity when in a nonuniform orientation.
Swirl / whirl
I think its a dwarf that builds turrets.
i think it is called a dictionary or google or wikipedia...or the internet...
This is perhaps my new grail watch :). So beautiful! The engineering and creativity is simply astounding.
Chinese counterfeiters be like, "Damn!"
哈哈，There are already fake Jacob watches on the market，Learn more。
@It’s not difficult to make a watch, whether it’s a tourbillon or anything else, it’s the 21st century now. Brand is the most important in the eyes of consumers. So, you can say who can’t make a brand, but don’t say who can’t make a watch .But it doesn't matter, please continue to maintain your inherent image of China.
Thanks to China and Chinese ppl, they showed to the world that all this shit was nothing exceptional, I love how China and Chinese ppl debunked all those companies that were making things so expensive just because they thought nobody could one day make the same or better lol.
@@paradhoax We got little pinks here. You want to see what Chinese at full potential look like? got to *Taiwan.* Taiwanese are the Chinese people without the boot of the CCP on their necks. Anyone who sees mainland China and their tofu dreg projects, their brand new buildings and roads crumbling and collapsing, their hot pot oils recycled from trash cans and gutters, their EV cars and scooters spontaneously bursting into flames, will understand why China is called *the land of cutting corners and facades.*
A tourbillon watch is something I know I will probably never own but it doesn't stop one from appreciating the fine mechanisms and beautiful precision of it as a piece of original artwork. After watching this it makes you appreciate why such amazing time pieces cost as much as they do. Simply put, breath taking......
I want to get it so I can pronounce gyrotourbillon the way he pronounce it when showing off my watch.
Jiro tuhrbiyoun
I love the way he says "Gyrotourbillon"
Jee Whizz Oh? For me hearing him pronounce it killed all my desire to buy one. I'll just get a Citizen. :)
volvo245 Citizen rules
dudurful yeah and it doesnt cost as much as my house
Well neither does that watch :P
But i like my citizen
Hamiltons are the best and Victorinox
Flat earthers don't need this watch because they say gravity does not exist.
Haha, good one!! Best wishes to you
The Dollar Guy they believe flat land is pushing them up so they kinda accept gravity but as a reaction force.
Gravity is just a theory based on the fake globe model, you are pushed down , not drawn toward the earth.
@@snorlax905 :DDD
It’s honestly pretty easy to prove. Take a dollar store cheapo magnet and pick up a paper clip. The paper clip lifts therefore magnetism must be stronger than gravity.
Think about that.
A piece of shit dollar store magnet has more force than the gravity of the entire planet.
The theory of gravity is a combination of density, buoyancy, and magnetism laws. There is no gravity. Only density and magnetism.
Things that fall to earth only fall because they are more dense than the atmosphere. (Think of hot air balloons). Our air is just like the liquid of an ocean-things either float or sink, based on their density relative to the surrounding matter.
He's explaining this craziness in a second language.. Smart man.
still not sure what it does
I can't even afford to watch this...
GOAT Pun Awards
lol
I've got a $20 Casio that doesn't give a crap about gravity.
I like the idea of that :D
Except it does goo.gl/ln5Ln4
+Astinger69
Well that tears it, I asked specifically about the effect of gravity on the watch when I bought it and the girl behind the counter at Kmart told me not to worry.
I knew I shoulda busted out another 600 grand for the Gyrotourbillon.
You get what you pay for. Lesson learned.
Not to worry, all of space time is bent (Dangit gravity!) around the planet as well, which is bent around the solar system... which is bent around the galaxy... so on and so forth.... So if you find your watch to be off just say it's calibrated to a different space time :D.
nobody gives a crap about ur casio
does it come with a baguette?
No but it does come with crippling debt.
With a baguette and a good french accent ;)
is there a slot for a telescopic rod with a white flag at the end?
Sure, or in a cereal box.
No ..a croissant
Quarter of a million dollars.. Yep, you try and make that.. Cannot even understand how far we have come as a society and this watch proves it.. It is just stunning the complexity.. True genius work of art.
Yes, that's also what we appreciate with this demonstration of human ingenuity, especially when you put this back in perspective of how watchmakers worked 200 years ago!! Here's a video in this direction we published recently that you might like: th-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/w-d-xo.html All the best
A survivor No, I'm sorry. The 1000 mini gears and 50 bearings orbiting like that brings tears to my eyes at how sophisticated mechanical engineers are.. It's all about perspective.
And yet the cheap quartz watch relegates this extra complexity nothing more than clunky eye candy.
you said it. I am extremely interested in the ingenious mechanical portion here. Are you like two? Tell me where to start on a quartz watch let alone this one.. You have no idea.
To be honest, the tourbillon mechanic looks far less complex than a regular mechanical clockwork. But fair enough, they probably had a scedule of a few years while the classic clockwork has evolved over centuries.
Watching this in 2020! What a video guys!
Je comprend la langue anglaise ; je vois des commentaires négatifs en anglais ; je leurs dis "bande de jaloux !" Cette oeuvre d'art est vraiment magnifique !
beautiful piece of art and elegantly complex machinery. too bad im poor.
I wouldn't want to wear this. Makes you a target for thieves, if you lose it, you cry.
that basically means you're a bitch any anyone can take your shit
Ahmad Dakhlallah if you cannot buy this, you are not poor. You are not rich enough. And that's a big difference. I'm not poor, but still cannot buy this.
100% correct - many rich people cant buy this....
Go buy a Timex then, or a Casio. They still tell time.
what a beautiful piece of engineering
Thank you for making this watch video. I am always very interested in watches, I don't know why. I really enjoyed watching this video. I would love to purchase such a watch someday. That looks like a piece of art.
Indeed art, something poetic and will remain like this. Have you seen this recent video that really illustrates this too: th-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/w-d-xo.html All the best
Tourbillon is french word for " Whirlwind. " In a watch , tourbillon is a moving & rotating mechanism to reduce the effects of the gravity pulls & the movement inertia that gradually slows down the precision of the time. It is mesmerizing to watch a well & elegantly made tourbillon in motion indeed! Thank You So Much for this informative & enjoyable tutorial on tourbillon! 😊🙏🌷🌿🌏🕊🇫🇷🇨🇭
They should make these about the size of a softball, mount them on a stand, and sell them as moving sculptures.
in a transparent shell with the earth printed on it
Make a clock with the technology
Beautiful piece and interesting inner workings
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Goodluck counterfeiting this ! hahaha
lol
I think if anyone COULD counterfeit something like that, they deserve to be payed for it.
+Freezyboy23 Mechanical reverse-engineering isn't that difficult. Manufacturing would be a longer process without the advanced CNC machinery used by the big guys...
+Freezyboy23 Somewere in China........
+Freezyboy23 Don't worry, the Chinese will find a way to counterfeit it.
Amazing watch making, very glad that what on first glance is a superficial trend for larger watches was the catalyst for something much more meaningful
Very interesting! And what do you think other 3-dimensional tourbillons?
TheWATCHES.tv I love all complex works, for example, I find the Greubel Forsey creations are stunning!
DevonReviewer Well in that case you will be happy, because we're shooting tomorrow at Greubel Forsey for another timepiece review! Best
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DevonReviewer Haha and thanks!!!
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Since every moving component is a metal object held in position by another metal object, how long does it stay properly lubricated before it has to be serviced? Any metal-on-metal contact points will create friction ; it must require constant expert maintenance?
I'm going to use this video as a drinking game. A shot every time this guy says gyrotourbillon, or tourbillon. He *loves* it!
love JLC, probably my favorite Swiss brand, the fact that most posers don't know what it is makes it that much more special.
i've glued a Rolex crown on my JLC
if I get a penny everytime he says 'trobionnne'
Tourbillon is a French word. Are you suggesting that a Frenchman doesn't know how to say it? I'm not French, but I speak the language fluently, and the way he says it sounds just fine to me.
@@DownhillAllTheWay No, he's merely saying that he mentions that word often in the video.
@@EugeneChei but he *_doesn't_* say "trobionne" (starting with "tr"). He says Tourbillon, and he says it correctly.
@@DownhillAllTheWay The joke flew right over your head
I’ll take a shot every time
WOWEeee! Nothing like this art form! Watchmakers always seem happy!
Very nice Fine lines lovely colors makes me want to see more of their creations.
Free shipping?
Of course ;)
Does it have GPS . map tracking etc?
It's a watch
Auf Fidersson so is my Garmin lol
It will be cool as hell to have a watch like this with GPS in it. A combination of art + technology
it is a combination of art an technology as it is.
Daniel Emiliano I find it useless if it can't produce maps :))
now THIS is art. not some 100k usd pieces of crap that i saw in many modern art museums nowadays.
+dudeinthesea
As electronic engineer and software developer I want to say that to develop software and electronic circuits is art too.
But mechanical and electronic hardware cannot be compared in same reason why you cannot compare apples and cheese. Someone like nuts, someone like apples. I like both
Roman I generally find Engineering as a form of art/craftmanship :) . My standard of art happens to be about the mastery of technical skills to the highest level through years of research and training. I just really like old-world crafts since it require so much skills so when i see very bull-crap overpriced art nowadays by hippies on drugs, it kinda gets to me lol.
+Roman agreed, but the level of craftsmanship dedicated to make this kind of watch is far greater and more exclusive. imagine to make a 14nm chip out of hand:)
+YuJia Liu Sorry, but I disagree! We can not be stuck in the age of manual craftsmanship!
The future humanity will appreciate the craftsmanship of Michelangelo and Bernini, cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale and co-axial escapement inventor George Daniels, but as the great Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pronounced: "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever".
Clockmaking - is the cradle! The Silicon Valley geniuses are the coryphaeus of the present and the future! Without information technology fits the humanity will be stuck forever in the cradle!
And please don't say that encrypting and coding demands lesser abstract, spacial and logical kind of thinking than the thinking of the mechanical masters of the past!
It is absolutely marvellous that hundreds of million people have, - thanks to the higher productivity and hence far lesser cost, - the access to the amazing wonders of computer engineering!
I dread to wake up in the previous centuries!
I partly agree with u, technology moves humanity forward, but things like this and lots others like hand build high end cars, hand made jewelry, fine wines and great paintings are the fuel to those people who bring us those technology:)
You gave some gears to y x axis. In regards to gravity, watches are not static or moved slowly, imaging constantly dropping it on a hard surface or the wearer being a jogger, you see it's not the angle but the force of change in angles.
What a great piece. BRAVO.
What are the rubys for i always see them in these spring watches but dont understand their function i know its not simply for looks
They act as a natural lubricant and prevents unnecessary friction of pignons for instance
I love this watch but could never afford to have one myself.
+One Man On Fire We understand and are in the same position, but like to see this as Art ;)
cheese noodle ok
Don't think most people could. 300-500k I think even those with that much for casual spending money probably buy lambos first.
That's cool but does it have a calculator? Didn't think so.
make one yourself then
Evil D my watch has one(fansy)
Doesn't even have internet or facebook. Use your smartphone and replay a movie of the gyro .
Some watches, like Breitling Navitimer has a built in sliderule ( Yes, a calculator without need for a battery), but most people nowadays don't even know how to work with a sliderule.. Too bad people are slowly turning "Stoopid" :)
Because u simply dont need to use the old tech and move on and use the new tech. Sliderulers were used by my grandma lol
Not gonna lie for all that engineering and thought, I don't blame them for selling it for the price of a house, such an ingenious idea.
For reals, the amount of precision work that goes into making such a small thing is beautiful to me!
Engineering and craftsmanship in these things is just exquisitely beautiful.
This level of mechanical genius leaves one such as myself awestruck while admiring the design, construction and the complexity of this most marvelous tiny machine.A true piece of mechanical art worthy of it's own place in a museum.Five stars!!
Definitely mechanical art! All the best
C'est vraiment "un truc de fou"...Une telle beauté mécanique ça me laisse rêveur.
great stocking stuffer idea! Xmas is right around the corner!
One never knows, papa xmas can be good sometimes!!!
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sneekyturbo1234 And the price is a steal!
yeah. BUT AS MUCH CRAP AS YOU CAN GET
Yeah if you have $350,000
If he sais tourbillon one more time...!
'tourbillon '
looooool
Sais is actually more appropriate bc it's French...badumtish.
It's a drinking game staring you right in the face!
to beyond..
Were can i get a copy of those Blueprints?
Good lord, that's beautiful.
It looks as if it's beating like a heart.
Imagine dropping this.
stunning - this is the difference between a Bugatti and a Prius!!!
Except that the "Prius" keeps better time... (Yes, I know. People who lust after this watch are not looking for a timepiece, but for mechanical art. Doesn't ring my chimes, but different strokes and all that.)
wish they would release 3d print files for this.
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quiza comprando uno
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This makes me wonder. Could there be any benefit to having circuits printed in a 3D space instead of on flat 2D boards? Like veins in an inert block of material that could conform to any shape it needs to.
Probably possible, and might become more practical with something like a advanced multi-matirials 3D printer only trick might be inserted the actual electrical component and not cooking them while trying to print around them
Innovation. This moves things forward. It is so exciting to be alive in this era.
"It's precise because it is not effected by the effect of gravity."
The inventors of this deserve a Nobel prize for inventing the first matter that isn't effected by gravitational time dilation.
Anthony Trupian well unless it imptoves gps idk about a nobel. But im inclined to beleive this thing would still be slowed relitistically by orbiting a black hole
geez its like a nano heart!
The question many of us are asking: "can I get one for less than I paid for my house?"
How fast can it be made to rotate under the same set up of equipment or else ???
Don't talk about just show it working. It speaks for itself. It is beautiful.
Maybe... if i sold my home...
is your home worth $400,000?
More. Worth 400k and a good Rolex.
102punti well then go for it homes are over rated anyway
it's 490 000 euro which is 548 849 dollars
102punti llp
the _cheapest_ watch I could find with a gyrotourbillion was one hundred and sixty
_thousand_ dollars
adam savage one day build
Wow. This looks like some weird Dwemer artifact straight out of Skyrim. And it works, too!
Questions: how is the energy transported from the gyrotourbillon on? Some pallot fork? Where would sit?
can an excavator continuously rotate on it's tread platform or only 2 times?
to run it you need 1.21 gigawatts
😂😂👍🏻
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads... because I spent all my money on this watch and now I can't afford a car.
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Mechanical watches are art, those smart watches are toys.
Very well summarised, thanks for this insightful comment!!!
Smartwatches have their own purpose in the modern world, quartz watches are made to keep perfect time, mechanical watches are art, yes, maybe nostagic, but often are used just as status symbol.
I'd say mechanical watches are jewellery. With all it's pros and cons. I just regret that so much clever craftsmanship and engeneering and innovation time goes into an outdated technology where it could surely find good use in other products that are still mechanical AND state of the art... But timekeeping... well... it's like a whole part of car industry specializing on building Oldtimer cars... but.... world seems to need jewellery and brand managment has it's own goals...
drinking game:
drink a shot whenever he says "tourbillon"
dude wtf we did this and my brother in law is in the hospital now, he has to eat through a tube to his belly for the rest of his life, thank you very much
Damn! Were you guys taking shots of Drano?
What program do they us to simulate their watches?
So this mechanism give Continuity and constancy move at the gears clock?
Tourbillon tourbillon, tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon. Toooourbillon! Tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon: tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon. Tourbillon.
He likes that word. I can't say I blame him.
Thorbeelons
The clock in my $50 Blu 5 Advance is accurate to .000002 of a second'. I had a $2500 Rolex couldn't keep time for shit.
until the battery runs out or you loose connection to any source of datastream supplying you with data from a decent atomic watch...
The point of these watches are much more than to tell accurate time. There is a reason they cost so much. You pay for the thousands of man hours someone spent in designing and expensive machining needed to create these mechanical marvels .
Karthik C they are super fantastic.
your paying for the experience and prestige, of owning something like that
This watch is jewelry, a sculpture you wear, the functionality is secondary, to give you a reason to wear it. I would NEVER buy anything like this, but understand that much.
Send a unit over to the hydraulic press channel for durability testing😨
its allmost like an engine for a watch. i am amazed by anyone who can design somthing like this
just when you thought mechanical timepieces were dead, the next level of engineering and design comes in
OMFG, I love it! Love my skeleton watch and love this even more o.O
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"Archimedes himself began the construction with little more than a mirror alignment; Da Vinci added the gearings; Newton, the lenses; Galileo, the prisms; all of the great poets, painters, scientists, alchemists, and philosophers, have had the Orb in their hands!"
"But what *is* it?"
"Some say it is a weapon of catastrophic proportions. I believe it to be a type of engine; self-sustaining, and of endless power! I believe this, Sandow, because I am a man of hope."
"Colonel venture , please don't activate it !"
Wonderful engineering. Gyrotourbillon takes the Kudos. If you want timekeeping though one cannot beat a decent quartz movement. ugh!.
+Crobular I Personally I prefer a Cesium fountain. But if you are happy with quartz, then good for you!
What size battery does it take?
Nice video. My only question is: What's a tourbillon?
could be yours for the low low cost of $240,000.00
And a kidney.
Sir Vergil isn't a kidney cheaper than the gyroSwiss?
Wait, so it's not on Thingiverse yet so I can 3D print my own?
tubiyon
My cell phone show me the time in any direction I hold it.
My $10 K-Mart Timex too and way cheaper.
can u be more in time than just in time ? how much in time can you be before you are to early? or will my seiko snk809 do just as good?
which simuation software?
That look like a pumping heart within a dissected body.
I wonder if I can pay a watch maker to make me a nano gyrocopter that I can FPS fly up someone's nose...
Tommy Ohlrich you wouldn't want a watch maker to make a quad copter
Best idea ever. Pick random shitty psychopaths to do it to every week.
you wanna piss off your coworkers?
"STOP FLYING FUCKING HELECOPTERS UP MY GODDAMN NOSE FRANK-"
Tommy Ohlrich You want to "frames per second" fly up someone's nose eh? Try fpv. The FIRST PERSON VIDEO should help.
fucking amazing
Now thats some high level craftsmanship ngl.
How to check the precision of a watch?
By measuring it with another one.
impressive. it is still less accurate than a $15 Timex.
+Francisco Osuna But 1 million times more magical ;)
that is very true. I don't know why the fact that quartz mechs are much more accurate than autos hurts peoples feelings. I don't mind that my 8000$ submariner is less accurate than your 10$ casio... my Rolex will last 100s of years, its a work of art, it holds and gains value, and more importantly its not built in a Chinese sweat shop, its built in state of the art facilities that pay their workers enough to live upper middle class lives and the watch itself is a work of art, timeless, a conversation piece, and makes peoples day. I love when I'm at work and a customer sees my watch and asks to see it and just stares at it in amazement and takes pictures... it doesn't make me feel "special" but its that fact that these little marvels of engineering ARE special...
+LazarG he's right...not owning or worshipping brands doesn't make you poor. I own a rolex and I'm a regular hard working guy...
its a luxery object, peoply with some respect for craftmanship and the available cash can and do appreciate something like that.
and i think this thing is fucking awsome. I never wear watches, ever, and i probably wont, but this a bit bigger at home? awsome.
I use my i phone to tell me the time.
As do all the normal people.
I do own a phone but i use a wristwatch to tell me the time. Not going to search for my damn phone or try and dig it out of my pockets, along with my keys, billfold, etc.,just to look at the fucking time. Took me a microsecond to glance at my wrist. Too many people are constantly glued to those stupid phones, and we wonder why everyone is so damn stupid.
or you could get a digital quartz watch that will be easier to make, it will be more durable and it will be more precise. and it will cost a lot less
Missing the point there, chief.
James Cree what is the point? invest and develop technology to make something complicated, inefficient, expensive, and useless that doesn't even work properly?
if that watch was a car it would use 200L of petrol in 1 km. it would be very big and clunky, it would break every time the road gets a little rough and wouldn;t function a whole day without once having engine problems... oh but it;s shiny and looks cool... wich is not the point of having a car.
+Romania de azi
Who needs art, right? 😑
James Cree art yes, but art means 1 watch. did DaVinci paint more than 1 monalisa . no and that is art... making 100 of these watches to sell to idiots is not art.
James Cree I asked you what is the point of a watch.... care to explain?
This is truely impressive. First time I see such a machine.
How is this disk maintained in rotation permanently, is there an electric motor to rotat it?
It`s swinging back and forth from the power of the main spring. This video ( th-cam.com/video/9_QsCLYs2mY/w-d-xo.html ) explains the basics of mechanical movements quite well. ;) have fun