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So I'm listening to the radio this morning...
and a commercial for a large watch store comes on touting the Breguet line. It referred to an orchestra conductor who chose a Breguet tourbillon because blah, blah, blah.
While the commercial did not state that he wore the tourbillon while conducting the orchestra, it could have been inferred that he did.
It is my understanding that a tourbillon is a relatively fragile component; would the sometimes abrupt gesticulations of a conductor be too much for such a delicate structure?
George
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So I'm listening to the radio this morning...
and a commercial for a large watch store comes on touting the Breguet line. It referred to an orchestra conductor who chose a Breguet tourbillon because blah, blah, blah. While the commercial did not state that he wore the tourbillon while conducting the ...
Dear friend...
....although tourbillon is a complex and very light mechanism, it is intended to be in watches for moving humans... It is not to be knocked around but, although I rarely see conductors wearing watches during performances, I do not think that tourbillon wa...