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Both are really quite stunning

 

But I am a little confused about the Flying Minute Tourbillon as I noticed they looked different in the two watches and having read your great and informative post discovered that the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon consists of 85 parts and weighs 0.635 grams whilst in the Big Pilots Watch 43  Tourbillon it consists of just 56 parts yet weighs the same 0.635 grams. Whilst I have to admit to not knowing a lot about Flying Minute Tourbillons I can't really understand why the same complication in two watches would require a different number of parts but yet still weigh the same, Enquiring minds need to know if possible.


Marc 

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Both are really quite stunning

 
By: Marc Obermann : May 21st, 2025-13:19
But I am a little confused about the Flying Minute Tourbillon as I noticed they looked different in the two watches and having read your great and informative post discovered that the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon consists of 85 parts an... 

I understood that but why are the Flying Minute Tourbillons different is what I don't get.

 
By: Marc Obermann : May 21st, 2025-13:38
Unless I just don't really understand how Tourbillons work I am struggling to see why they would perform the same function yet consist of a different number of parts and yet still weigh the same. I do understand that a Tourbillon is a mechanism that rotat...