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A watch like this transcends practicality and sits very much in the
rarefied field of art, so I won't attempt to comment on pedestrian
things like its water resistance; it just isn't important.
Besides, I would seriously question the sanity of a person who chooses
to go swimming with a six figure complication on a leather strap. They should immediately have all their watches confiscated by some higher horological authority. Suffice to say the piece has enormous wrist presence; it's our horological bling in the best possible way.
I personally love how the movement itself forms the dial, allowing you
to appreciate the variations in surface finishing (clous de Paris,
anglage, perlage , matte, brushed, polished…it's all there) and the tourbillon itself.
In fact, I believe one of the very reasons the watch does not have a dial is to keep the thickness down due to the tourbillon; it appears that the cage is the thickest part of the movement. And what a cage! Two axes of rotation, different periods.
I would imagine the end point of the tourbillon would probably trace a
path covering all points on a sphere, if one were inclined to wait long
enough.
It's actually quite a challenge to photograph this movement (and hugely
more so to regulate it) because the tourbillon doesn't stop. Your final composition is a bit of a surprise, because the cage keeps moving. I guess the barrel has to be blocked or a tool used to stop rotation to adjust the rate of the watch.
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