The tourbillon as poetry in pure form, that is what Beat Haldimann's watches are about. Beat showed his H1 with the single tourbillon floating above the dial, the H2 with two tourbillons in resonance floating above the dial and the enigmatic H8, the tourb...
doesn't tell time he gets laughed out of the room but Haldiman's tourbillon which doesn't tell time either gets lauded? not defending the RJ which I find a joke but the Haldiman doesn't make sens either!
Maybe what makes the difference is that BH makes it all by hand and its all his invention and a piece of art, while RJ orders it from BNB or whom as a commercial product. Could that be the reason? In any case it is a matter of taste.
how Roman Jerome marketed their watch. Beat doesn't claim that the H8 is a watch. It is a kinetic sculpture. I may have said watch to it, but those were my words, not his. Don