A flying tourbillon for under $1500? Arcturus Vanda Tourbillon 'Aventurine'

[thesingularity7]

Review: https://www.beansandbezels.com/revie...da-tourbillon/

[INC]

These are also nice, but I think they are mostly just overpriced Chinese Seagull homages.

[thesingularity7]

Originally Posted by INC

These are also nice, but I think they are mostly just overpriced Chinese Seagull homages.

This one does fall into a lot of homage categories (lots of De Bethune, Akrivia, etc design elements in there). But its using a Peacock Tourbillon movement and not Seagull, fyi.

[enjoythemusic]

Yes, the Chinese are making interesting value-priced timepieces. A watchmaker on YouTube got an inexpensive Chinese tourbillon and disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled it. Looked quite good accuracy-wise. If other countries put in top effort, we might eventually be seeing some very impressive value-oriented handcrafted and highly decorated timepieces with popular complications. jmho

[thesingularity7]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

Yes, the Chinese are making interesting value-priced timepieces. A watchmaker on YouTube got an inexpensive Chinese tourbillon and disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled it. Looked quite good accuracy-wise. If other countries put in top effort, we might eventually be seeing some very impressive value-oriented handcrafted and highly decorated timepieces with popular complications. jmho

That sounds fun, do you have a link to the video? My criticism of all the Chinese movements I've photographed is really just the lack of tidiness and rigorous clean room standards. But that seems easily remedied, so I'd love to see one that's cleaned up properly.