Blancpain - An 'educative lesson'?

An 'educative lesson'?

Dea Marcus

thanks for your excellent article on the this year's Blancpain novelties. I have to say that the Le Brassus Tourbillon Carrousel is a most telling piece. Blancpain had in the past...

- a simplified flying tourbillon that many people claimed it is actually a carousel

- a carousel which looked like a common tourbillon.

Now they merged those two complications into one piece and - probably in order to avoid total confusion - they (thankfully) labelled the respective escapements. I am not sure whether this watch actually teaches something about the differences between the two escapement types. Both, tourbillon and carousel are far from being representative specimens of their respective kinds. Thus, the watch might even increase confusion (but at the same time invites a deeper examination of the horological particularities which is a good thing).

On the other hand I noted that the Blancpain tourbillon features a free-sprung balance wheel. Is this now standard to all Blancpain tourbillons?

Thanks again,

Magnus

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An 'educative lesson'?

By: Ornatus-Mundi : June 7th, 2013-04:26

Dea Marcus thanks for your excellent article on the this year's Blancpain novelties. I have to say that the Le Brassus Tourbillon Carrousel is a most telling piece. Blancpain had in the past... - a simplified flying tourbillon that many people claimed it ...

You are right ...

By: Marcus Hanke : June 7th, 2013-05:04

... at first sight, I thought BP had confused the labels on the dial, since I would thought the carousel to be at the top. But you know yourself that one barely has time to examine a timepiece in detail suring these short (less than 30 minutes) presentati...

Not a simplified tourbillon

By: jkingston : June 9th, 2013-20:26

Hi Magnus Don't want to pick a fight, but I simply cannot agree with the label "simplified tourbillon". There is nothing simplified about it. In order to make the tourbillon thin, Blancpain (and actually Vincent Calabrese) de-centered the balance wheel. M...

Simplification is the REAL intellectual challenge...

By: Ornatus-Mundi : June 9th, 2013-23:47

so in my view the term 'simple' has no negative connotations whatsoever. The fact that brand boast with parts count it totally counter-intuitive to me. If in any industry, business or science you permanently strive for the most complicated solution you sh...