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Not a simplified tourbillon
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. Most tourbillons constructions center the balance wheel around the center of rotation of the cage. By moving the balance wheel off center, the cage can be made thinner. All the basics of a tourbillon are present: rotation of the time keeping elements around a fixed gear. Plus, since it is entirely supported by the bottom bridge and has no top bridge, it is a flying tourbillon.
There are no short cuts here. There is nothing which is more simple than a centered balance wheel design. What was achieved was world record thinness for a tourbillon.
This design has been copied (slavishly I might add) by several other large brands. Their goal was thinness as well.
Jeff
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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...
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