We battle the important question, "do people use their watches to tell the time?" More coverage on SIHH and of course the interesting Chinese "real" tourbillon watch that will have an upcoming review by me. Also, another watch giveaway for you to enter for!
Listen to the HourTime podcast episode 12 here.
G’day from Australia guys, just a couple of notes, I’m a watchmaker in Melbourne, have just found your podcast in the last couple of months, sounds good so far, lookin forward to many more.
On the Chinese tourbillons, there have been a number of “real” ones available for over 5 years now, possibly produced by Seagull, and in both normal and flying tourbillon models tonneau and round. These generally are sold for under $1000 USD and occassionally under $500.. Like the newer ones the long term quality is questionable, and parts for repair are non-existent making simple repairs very expensive, even if you can find someone to work on it.. I have not taken one of these to pieces, but believe there was a post on timezone a couple of years ago where someone dissected one for review purposes.
On whether people wear watches to tell the time or not, I personally do, also using my Breitling B-1 to set the time on watches I work on, on the weekends I tend to rely on a watch, otherwise I spend too much time having fun and forget to go home
I use my phone as a backup timepiece rather than the other way around.
Keep up the good work, look forward to more SIHH stuff as well as your thoughts on the upcoming Basel bits & pieces
-Tom
Hi Tom,
You know how they are when it comes to repair times and costs.
Thanks for information. I have been sort of familiar with those other Chinese tourbillons, but this is the first one I have gotten my hands on. I feel confident that Longio does it better than Seagull. How much better? Not totally sure though. You mention them being hard and expensive to repair. Totally true, but I doubt it is any different with the Swiss ones