Blancpain

This is probably WAY too easy for this gang of eagle eyed pros.  But I have not posted a shot of this posterior view of the piece before.  Actually this is as much about the shot as the watch.  I just received a Canon TS-E 90 tilt shift lens and am playing around with it.  So far I can say that it opens up whole new possibilities for photographing watches.  One can tilt the lens bringing much more of the watch into focus than ever was possible before (ruling out, of course, stopping the lens down too far and introducing diffraction effects).

Jeff

Never did quite understand the spelling on that one

Just missed my chance to see one in person last Month at the NYC boutique. Foolishly I neglected to look at the Tourbillon Transparence they had in stock, not realizing it was more than 10 times rarer than the Karrusel!

Ok guessing the watch was not rocket science.  But to spy serial numbers and note differences in the limitation number.  No that's being detail oriented.  Yes, Nicolas the Basel prototypes showed a limitation of 188.  That decision was changed before Basel and the official announcement was that the series would be limited to 288.  And so the actual production models correctly reflect the 288 limitation.  There were other substantive differences as well between the Basel prototypes and production models--changes in hands, in the top plate of the movement etc.  (changes which improved the watch IMHO)

Jeff