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This question has been answered many times over by various professionals and amateur watch experts in various forums dedicated to timepieces or otherwise. However people from all over the world are still asking this same question. We will try to debunk this in simple English.  What is a Tourbillon watch ? can it be an automatic or manual watch ? is there a correlation between an automatic and a tourbillon? Gee these can be confusing...... No not really.... here is a simple breakdown from the beginning :- Watches 1) Mechanical 2) Quartz 3) Digital 1) Mechanical ==>  Automatic or Manual...

It's time to celebrate this success by buying something you like and I am sure this is some kind of luxury goods and maybe even contribute back to the economy. A perfect gift for oneself is the wristwatch. As you know, a pure mechanical engineered watch without a battery is the only kind of watch that can be called a real watch, a watch with a soul and a heartbeat. Which type of watch to buy? Of course the Tourbillon.... Thanks to Abraham-Louis Breguet for inventing the complex function of the tourbillon in 1795 in France,  and later adopted into...

Is seagull a good watch brand ? "Seagull" brand watches have a history of 64 years since their birth in 1955. The 64 years of development has laid a solid technical foundation for the manufacture of "Seagull" watches. It has now become a major watch movement manufacturer and designer of world-class timepieces, A watch production base integrating assembly and sales.  "Seagull" brand watches were rated as "Chinese Famous Brand" products by the country. The Seagull Watch Group takes independent innovation capabilities into creating an international brand and is now well known. Since 2002, the Seagull Group has invested more than 100...

Watches have come a long way from the humble beginning of the sundial where the only movement was the Sun ! I do believe back then, it would have been a fun thing to do to " watch" the shade of the gnomon moving around the dial !  It was not fun at all and unuseable during winter months.... so further invention came into play. Human nature is to perfect the result and outcome of anything that seems to be imperfect. The evolution of the " watch" began and the rest is history as they say until 1795 where Breguet invented...

The most critical component of a mechanical watch is its balance wheel and balance spring,  Life also need balance, yin yang energies in health need balance, work and play need balance. We all need to find the right balance for us to tik tok through the hours, minutes and seconds of our lives. Another critical component in a mechanical watch is the escape mechanism. By adjusting the tension in the hairspring, the speed of energy escape changes, thus adjusting the accuracy of the time. In real life we have to adjust our tensions too by doing Yoga or exercising, releasing...