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The president of company Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth Gerald Roden:
“Real tourbillons can be produced by two companies: Breguet, as the founder of the company developed tourbillons, and Daniel Roth have rights to produce tourbillons because it were us who developed modern tourbillon for Breguet. Of course the right to wear tourbillon have watches Gerald Genta, as this brand was the first producer in 80-s, which purposefully engaged in technically complicated movements. We are ready to prove that Gerald Genta was first who began to set tourbillons in wristwatches.
Out of respect for the movement history, we traditionally do tourbillons manually and adjust them according to the highest standards of the official Institute of the testing of chronometers COSC.
Is the tourbillon raises accuracy of the wristwatch? Let's take a sober look at this question: if you primarily need accurate watch, then it is not necessary to spend an extra hundred thousand Swiss francs: a well-adjusted chronometer will cost you much less. I think people buy Swiss watches with tourbillon not just because of accuracy. They have something attractive on the emotional range. Tourbillon presents a wonderful mix of technical attraction and emotional energy, and you shouldn't forget about it.
That is why you ought to establish the highest price at the watch with tourbillon, otherwise you cripple on emotional component of your tourbillon. It appears because of that customer knows such elegant watches has no one. Bringing down the price, you are essentially wet slightly reputation of watchmaking.
The market has several companies which manage to produce real trend high quality watches, which will cost their price. By the way all Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth tourbillons developed in manufactures from the beginning is rarity in watch world. And when they try to do something different most of the time it is the sign that they don't have experience to make a real tourbillon and company searching for another ways. Two years ago having seen how many tourbillons were produced to the market with series production, they say: “Well, it will be hard for you” But nowadays we still make 300 tourbillons per year and demand is much overlap that numeral.
Happening in the market several years ago with the tourbillon today repeats the situation with the repeater watches. Nowadays, if you need minute repeater, large or small strike, you go to the master, for example Christof Clare, who getting check from you collects watch movement and even watch. But what will make you different from others? Last year we announced about creation a minute repeater which wasn't made. Because the sound was not good enough. We retrieved the watch to the revision and went by strictly scientific way.
Quality of tourbillon can be tested empirically- measure the oscillation frequency of the balance sheet and thus check the accuracy of the progress and quality settings. For repeaters this method until recently did not exist, and could rely on hearing a watchmaker. Now we test repeaters scientificlly. We hired expert on acoustics, who carefully tests all our repeaters. And we found out the next:
It turns out that it is important not only as individual gongs sounded the blows of hammers, but as these sounds are combined. Octaves are repeated, and if you do not configure the gongs as follows, that notes can "turn off" each other. It is important to test the already existing watch, since after the conclusion of the movement in the case of its acoustic properties vary greatly. As a result, we have the only world's watch with a large (and Westminster) in force, self-winding and tourbillon.
Ask any watchmaker which watch the most complicated in the world, and he will answer with large strike, because you have to be a great master to make such watch. Automatic winding system in our repeater is very cleverly arranged. It can be considered as very functional complication. We took reduced movement of pocket watches produced in Valle-de-Joux, where all watches were repeaters. On creation of a movement worked Pierre-Michel Golay. It is important to understand that our large strike gear with a high degree of internal integration. Many now produce repeater watches, making it based on some basic caliber of several modules. In my opinion, it is impossible to call this watchmaking.
Our watches are fully integrated movement. This means that from the very beginning of his conceived and built as a movement for the large strike, and turned out to be extremely beautiful. The whole movement is created and communicated without assistance, we do everything ourselves, except for a single component - the descent, which we take from Nivarox. In the future, to every instance of our watches with the strike will be accompanied by a certificate with the octave, volume, etc. In the future we also plan to make exact copies of spare gongs for every watch in case you have to repair them. Commitment to its customers long-term support also sets us apart from all others - as a very serious manufacturer of repeater watches. "
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