Azimuth Twin Barrel Tourbillon Watch

The young Swiss Azimuth watch company, driven by the strive for innovations and principally new shapes and constructions, has produced a limited edition of the Twin Barrel Tourbillon watch model. A tourbillon is one of the most elaborate watch complications. It is made to increase the watch's movement precision by means of compensating the influence of gravity on the lever fork – the only asymmetrical detail of the gear-driven mechanism. A tourbillon also supports even distribution of rubbing surfaces' oiling at its horizontal and vertical states interchange.
 A tourbillon consists of a balance wheel, a lever fork and an escapement wheel, situated on a special revolving platform – the carriage. The escapement wheel's pinion revolves around the seconds wheel, herewith all the installation revolves around its axis in such a way, that the mechanism's center of gravity is in a different place every second, in consequence of which all positioning mistakes annihilate, instead of accumulating, as in regular watches.
 Tourbillon watches are characterized with exceptional precision. For official chronometers the maximum deviation is +5 seconds per day, for sea chronometers its +0,3 seconds per day and for tourbillons its hundredth fractions of a second per day.

Tourbillon watches are produced by the most prestigious watch companies: their production is inherent in big difficulties and it requires exceptional craftsmanship and inventiveness from the watchmaker. The watch craftsmen have to test all details' operation thoroughly with the help of a binocular microscope, in order for the tourbillon's case to reach ideal balance. A tourbillon is an invention of the genius watchmaker, Breguet.
 The comparatively smaller power reserve, resulting from the energy “consumption” on the tourbillon's revolving, has traditionally been considered a tourbillon watch's drawback. But the Azimuth Twin Barrel Tourbillon watch, equipped with 2 winding drums, provides a 120-hour power reserve. The tourbillon's central axle is made of blue-finished gold. It's notable, that the tourbillon is not the model's main feature, it's challenged in its originality by a pair of “sheafs”, flying over the tourbillon, used for time indication. The watch's titanium case resembles Lamborghini Murcielago's body lineaments. The dial is covered by a double domed sapphire crystal.
The watch was produced in limited edition of only 25 pieces. It harmoniously combines the company's philosophy, its creative approach to design and the super-precise watch equipment.