The 10 best tourbillon watches of 2024. Discover the top 10 tourbillon timepieces from 2024 that push the boundaries of engineering and design
Since its invention by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801, the tourbillon has stood as a testament to the watchmaker’s pursuit of accuracy and craftsmanship. For an in-depth look at its fascinating history, see our feature article, "The Tourbillon, history of a watchmaking feat".
In 2024, the tourbillon continues to be a symbol of horological excellence, bringing together advanced engineering and elegant design.
This year’s releases showcase how brands are pushing the limits of this ingenious mechanism originally designed to counteract gravity's effect on pocket watches. Here are 10 exceptional tourbillon wristwatches released in 2024 that made a mark, listed in alphabetical order.
This exceptional timepiece represents the pinnacle of Lange's craftsmanship, blending the intricate features of a flyback chronograph, a precise jumping minute counter, a perpetual calendar, and a tourbillon with a stop-seconds mechanism. Setting this edition apart is its exclusive use of Lange's proprietary honey gold and its 'Lumen' version, limited to just 50 pieces.
The dial side of this model reveals two independent tourbillons that complete a full rotation per minute, simultaneously driving the tourbillon bar that also serves as the hours hand. This bar is attached to a central mainplate that rotates every 12 hours, thanks to a particularly complex mechanism.
The result of more than six years of work under the direction of the talented master watchmaker Jean-François Mojon, the Etheral Twin Orbital Tourbillon features an astonishing 3D moving dial. As the hours pass, the jumping hours, the minute indication and the two flying tourbillons change position, keeping time perfectly readable always horizontally.
The DB Kind of Grande Complication brings together an impressive array of features-including a perpetual calendar, spherical moon-phase indication, retrograde age of the Moon, leap year display, jumping seconds, power reserve, and an ultra-light tourbillon-distributed across a dual display, made possible by its reversible, double-sided case.
This timepiece combines the world’s first perpetual Nano Foudroyante invention with Greubel Forsey’s first flying tourbillon and manual wind flyback chronograph. The mechanism’s energy is managed at the nanojoule scale, significantly reducing the number of components and the overall dimensions. Greubel Forsey refers to this as 'nanomechanics'.
Discarding conventional elements such as a dial, hands, and an oscillating weight, this timepiece embraces a roller display, circular power reserve, and an inclined tourbillon driven by two linear weights.
Housed in an 18-carat Armor Gold case, this Portugieser model combines a flying minute tourbillon consisting of 56 parts for a total weight of only 0.675 grams with an innovative day and night display showing the cycle of day and night with the help of a small sphere that rotates around its axis once every 24 hours.
This exclusive 20-piece limited edition features an entirely new tourbillon construction: one that spins on three axes to create a spinning top effect. The innovative tourbillon is combined with a perpetual calendar featuring a grande date indication.
Piaget marked its 150th anniversary, since its founding in 1874, with an exceptional timepiece that boasts an incredible thinness of 2 mm, comparable to a coin, while also featuring a sophisticated flying tourbillon.
This model weighs 11.5 grams excluding its strap and can withstand a g-force of 14,000, for a two-fold record for a manual winding tourbillon watch. Thanks to a base fitted with ball bearings, the tourbillon mantains high performance, eliminating the need for a bridge and achieving an impressive thinness of just 0.72 mm.
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