The Evolution of the Gyrotourbillon by Jaeger-LeCoultre
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2013
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Find out about the evolution of the incredible Gyrotourbillon family of watches by Jaeger-LeCoultre with Stéphane Belmont, International Marketing Director of the brand. @thewatchestv - Навчання та стиль
I have never heard of the word "tourbillon" until this video and I have now heard it 124 times.
Well that was a good introduction then ;)
And I just gave you your 124th like. Yeehah!
mmh he told it only 16 times only. But it sound like he told it 124 times.
So now, of course, UA-cam is recommending dozens of videos about tourbillons ...
@@CocktaiLMolotovX Thanks for counting. You must be fun at parties.
Its actually quite rare to find a marketing director that is so knowledgeable about the actual physics and engineering that went into the product. You could see he is proud to present this watch.
JLC is the Einstein of the mechanical watch world. Their mechanical mastery is legendary. For decades JLC provided the best watch brands like Patek with their movements. If anyone wants to own the world’s best mechanical watch, get a JLC.
That's true. Marketing guys usually are clowns but this person seems to really know the details!
I wonder why he doesn't wear his own product.
I love that the full mechanism is visible through the front face. It would be a crime to hide something that beautiful.
That's totally right!!!
Gotta hand it to the UA-cam algorithm. Every once in a while it actually suggests interesting videos.
a broken clock is right twice a day (I got here by yt recommendation too)
That has to be one of the most beautiful mechanical masterpieces ever created by the human hand. That gyro has an organic primeval quality, like the pumping heart of a new-born mythical beast
Only *half a million*?? Dang, I'll take *three*!!!
Do they offer the *economy shipping* option?
No, but for ordering three, you will have a free meal at McDonalds
As long as it is a *happy meal*... it's a deal!
I'm going to guess that for that price I could buy the micro CNC milling and forming machines necessary to make one of these myself.
Also: why aluminum? Beryllium is lighter and stronger, but it is harder to work with. You are paying half a million peso's though. Its certainly no harder to machine than the gems.
With all of the arcane-level knowledge, design, manufacturing, and assembly that goes into something like this, they could honestly get away with charging double that. A half million dollars for a device like this is seriously a good deal. This isn't something I could ever, ever afford, but I know well enough what I'm looking at to be a little shocked that it's only half a million.
You might be able to buy the tools to manufacture it, sure, but knowing how to use those tools without running through 50 attempts at one part, knowing where to get the materials, knowing how to design and manufacture a SPHERICAL HAIR SPRING, and having the skills to make all of that happen with no mistakes is worth so much more than a desktop CNC tool station.
If I gave you an engine lathe and access to a foundry, you could probably eventually turn out a Bentley W12 engine, but you wouldn't be saving any money at the end.
WTF is a gyrotourbillon ? After watching this, I still think it opens a time portal.
In a wristwatch you can't predict the orientation of the watch due to the movement of the wearer's hand. This variation in orientation will introduce inaccuracy because the timekeeping elements will be affected by gravity in unpredictable ways. The gyrotourbillion constantly rotates the timekeeping elements. With this constant rotation, the error due to gravity is evened out. That being said, in practice a gyrotourbillion is watchmaker bling-bling. Makes rich people shell out hella money for the rotating doodad that looks cool.
wtf is a dictionary or the internet...possibly the easiest way to find out what stuff means - oh and its right here - right now - right at your fingertips but dont bother post a question instead - lmao.
@kappelmeister123 "The tourbillion does exactly this as you move your wrist"
I don't think you understand what a tourbillon is. A tourbillon forces the rotation of the balance wheel through all possible angles. This way the effects of gravity are averaged out in all directions.
The gimbals used in ship's clocks keep the clock oriented in the same direction independent of the level of the deck. A tourbillon is not free to move in a set of gimbals. The motion around the axis is constant.
While theoretically a tourbillon could possibly improve the accuracy of a watch, in practice it doesn't. Tourbillons are just cool. There's not much about a mechanical watch which is practical anyway. They're just really cool pieces of machinery once can wear. Many inexpensive quartz watches keep much better time than best mechanical watches.
"one of the most important human engineering feats was designing a ship's clock that kept accurate time as it crossed the ocean."
I completely agree with you here. Some of the marine chronometers are some of the coolest (and in their time practical) machines made.
@kappelmeister123 This comment adds to my earlier reply to you. I found a mechanism which is similar to the gimbals used in a ship's chronometer. The video *Crazy Gyroscopic Escapement Module with Zenith Watches* shows Zenith's escapement which levels itself. It's also a very cool looking mechanism but it different than the one shown in the video above.
I'm not sure which mechanism I like better. I'll probably need to get one of each.
Cheers.
@@GB3770 for others to easily scroll down and see an answer. But instead I have to see your toxicity. You are a sad person.
Chinese counterfeiters be like, "Damn!"
哈哈，There are already fake Jacob watches on the market，Learn more。
@It’s not difficult to make a watch, whether it’s a tourbillon or anything else, it’s the 21st century now. Brand is the most important in the eyes of consumers. So, you can say who can’t make a brand, but don’t say who can’t make a watch .But it doesn't matter, please continue to maintain your inherent image of China.
Thanks to China and Chinese ppl, they showed to the world that all this shit was nothing exceptional, I love how China and Chinese ppl debunked all those companies that were making things so expensive just because they thought nobody could one day make the same or better lol.
@@paradhoax We got little pinks here. You want to see what Chinese at full potential look like? got to *Taiwan.* Taiwanese are the Chinese people without the boot of the CCP on their necks. Anyone who sees mainland China and their tofu dreg projects, their brand new buildings and roads crumbling and collapsing, their hot pot oils recycled from trash cans and gutters, their EV cars and scooters spontaneously bursting into flames, will understand why China is called *the land of cutting corners and facades.*
I love the way he says "Gyrotourbillon"
Jee Whizz Oh? For me hearing him pronounce it killed all my desire to buy one. I'll just get a Citizen. :)
volvo245 Citizen rules
dudurful yeah and it doesnt cost as much as my house
Well neither does that watch :P
But i like my citizen
Hamiltons are the best and Victorinox
After seven years, this is still a stunning piece of engineering genius.
I have to wonder when Jaeger-LeCoultre produces a new Gyrotourbillon which is half the size of the current masterpiece.
It reminds me of a centurion dynamo core from skyrim.
Fishhunter2014 omfg me too!
:-)
but can it run ....
Same
You are a person of culture and i salute you
He's explaining this craziness in a second language.. Smart man.
still not sure what it does
I want to get it so I can pronounce gyrotourbillon the way he pronounce it when showing off my watch.
Jiro tuhrbiyoun
Would not care about the time,spend all of it watching and marvelling at how beautiful it is! Engineering perfection.
I can't even afford to watch this...
so many levels of pun and reality
GOAT Pun Awards
lol
Flat earthers don't need this watch because they say gravity does not exist.
Haha, good one!! Best wishes to you
The Dollar Guy they believe flat land is pushing them up so they kinda accept gravity but as a reaction force.
Gravity is just a theory based on the fake globe model, you are pushed down , not drawn toward the earth.
@@snorlax905 :DDD
It’s honestly pretty easy to prove. Take a dollar store cheapo magnet and pick up a paper clip. The paper clip lifts therefore magnetism must be stronger than gravity.
Think about that.
A piece of shit dollar store magnet has more force than the gravity of the entire planet.
The theory of gravity is a combination of density, buoyancy, and magnetism laws. There is no gravity. Only density and magnetism.
Things that fall to earth only fall because they are more dense than the atmosphere. (Think of hot air balloons). Our air is just like the liquid of an ocean-things either float or sink, based on their density relative to the surrounding matter.
This is perhaps my new grail watch :). So beautiful! The engineering and creativity is simply astounding.
This is art. Art and function. Beautiful and masterful, ingenious design. Has the old hurdle of gravity been conquered in watch making? What a gorgeous design that hypnotizes the viewer. Watch makers will be stopped in their steps with this piece of aesthetically pleasing art. Definitely not a watch for all.
if you heard him, it's more accurate by 'distributing' the errors across the various positions.
@@shachar2 Which is already done naturally in a wrist watch because it's on your arm, and you kind of move your arm in all directions. Tourbillons were designed for pocket watches which lived their lives in a vertical position most of the time, meaning that one end of the balance will get a different force acting on it than the other.
Tourbillons on a wrist watch are pretty much useless for timekeeping accuracy, they're done for the coolness and engineering challenge of it.
It's really the opposite of function. If you want function you buy a quartz 2dollar watch will keep time 1000x better than this.
I'm going to use this video as a drinking game. A shot every time this guy says gyrotourbillon, or tourbillon. He *loves* it!
They should make these about the size of a softball, mount them on a stand, and sell them as moving sculptures.
in a transparent shell with the earth printed on it
Make a clock with the technology
Thank you for making this watch video. I am always very interested in watches, I don't know why. I really enjoyed watching this video. I would love to purchase such a watch someday. That looks like a piece of art.
Indeed art, something poetic and will remain like this. Have you seen this recent video that really illustrates this too: ua-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/v-deo.html All the best
beautiful piece of art and elegantly complex machinery. too bad im poor.
I wouldn't want to wear this. Makes you a target for thieves, if you lose it, you cry.
that basically means you're a bitch any anyone can take your shit
Ahmad Dakhlallah if you cannot buy this, you are not poor. You are not rich enough. And that's a big difference. I'm not poor, but still cannot buy this.
100% correct - many rich people cant buy this....
Go buy a Timex then, or a Casio. They still tell time.
A tourbillon watch is something I know I will probably never own but it doesn't stop one from appreciating the fine mechanisms and beautiful precision of it as a piece of original artwork. After watching this it makes you appreciate why such amazing time pieces cost as much as they do. Simply put, breath taking......
Very nice Fine lines lovely colors makes me want to see more of their creations.
Amazing watch making, very glad that what on first glance is a superficial trend for larger watches was the catalyst for something much more meaningful
Very interesting! And what do you think other 3-dimensional tourbillons?
TheWATCHES.tv I love all complex works, for example, I find the Greubel Forsey creations are stunning!
DevonReviewer Well in that case you will be happy, because we're shooting tomorrow at Greubel Forsey for another timepiece review! Best
TheWATCHES.tv I am sure that will be an enjoyable day, I will send you my address if they are giving out any freebies ;) Subscribed!
DevonReviewer Haha and thanks!!!
what a beautiful piece of engineering
Watching this in 2020! What a video guys!
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Beautiful piece and interesting inner workings
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Goodluck counterfeiting this ! hahaha
lol
I think if anyone COULD counterfeit something like that, they deserve to be payed for it.
+Freezyboy23 Mechanical reverse-engineering isn't that difficult. Manufacturing would be a longer process without the advanced CNC machinery used by the big guys...
+Freezyboy23 Somewere in China........
+Freezyboy23 Don't worry, the Chinese will find a way to counterfeit it.
beautiful piece
WOWEeee! Nothing like this art form! Watchmakers always seem happy!
I've got a $20 Casio that doesn't give a crap about gravity.
I like the idea of that :D
Except it does goo.gl/ln5Ln4
+Astinger69
Well that tears it, I asked specifically about the effect of gravity on the watch when I bought it and the girl behind the counter at Kmart told me not to worry.
I knew I shoulda busted out another 600 grand for the Gyrotourbillon.
You get what you pay for. Lesson learned.
Not to worry, all of space time is bent (Dangit gravity!) around the planet as well, which is bent around the solar system... which is bent around the galaxy... so on and so forth.... So if you find your watch to be off just say it's calibrated to a different space time :D.
nobody gives a crap about ur casio
Quarter of a million dollars.. Yep, you try and make that.. Cannot even understand how far we have come as a society and this watch proves it.. It is just stunning the complexity.. True genius work of art.
Yes, that's also what we appreciate with this demonstration of human ingenuity, especially when you put this back in perspective of how watchmakers worked 200 years ago!! Here's a video in this direction we published recently that you might like: ua-cam.com/video/YB6B4z4PqdA/v-deo.html All the best
A survivor No, I'm sorry. The 1000 mini gears and 50 bearings orbiting like that brings tears to my eyes at how sophisticated mechanical engineers are.. It's all about perspective.
And yet the cheap quartz watch relegates this extra complexity nothing more than clunky eye candy.
you said it. I am extremely interested in the ingenious mechanical portion here. Are you like two? Tell me where to start on a quartz watch let alone this one.. You have no idea.
To be honest, the tourbillon mechanic looks far less complex than a regular mechanical clockwork. But fair enough, they probably had a scedule of a few years while the classic clockwork has evolved over centuries.
Je comprend la langue anglaise ; je vois des commentaires négatifs en anglais ; je leurs dis "bande de jaloux !" Cette oeuvre d'art est vraiment magnifique !
this is a masterpiece !!
if I get a penny everytime he says 'trobionnne'
Tourbillon is a French word. Are you suggesting that a Frenchman doesn't know how to say it? I'm not French, but I speak the language fluently, and the way he says it sounds just fine to me.
@@DownhillAllTheWay No, he's merely saying that he mentions that word often in the video.
@@EugeneChei but he *_doesn't_* say "trobionne" (starting with "tr"). He says Tourbillon, and he says it correctly.
@@DownhillAllTheWay The joke flew right over your head
I’ll take a shot every time
I love this watch but could never afford to have one myself.
+One Man On Fire We understand and are in the same position, but like to see this as Art ;)
cheese noodle ok
Don't think most people could. 300-500k I think even those with that much for casual spending money probably buy lambos first.
Very Fascinating!
Absolutely amazing
C'est vraiment "un truc de fou"...Une telle beauté mécanique ça me laisse rêveur.
Not gonna lie for all that engineering and thought, I don't blame them for selling it for the price of a house, such an ingenious idea.
For reals, the amount of precision work that goes into making such a small thing is beautiful to me!
Quite a genius and expensive solution for a problem that no longer exist.
Are you saying that Gravity no longer is a problem?
But I fell down yesterday and hurt myself.
Innovation. This moves things forward. It is so exciting to be alive in this era.
Somebody know whats going on with the tinybiny gears? :) This is pure crazy! Well done!
does it come with a baguette?
No but it does come with crippling debt.
With a baguette and a good french accent ;)
is there a slot for a telescopic rod with a white flag at the end?
Sure, or in a cereal box.
No ..a croissant
Good lord, that's beautiful.
It looks as if it's beating like a heart.
Horology at its best, amazing!
Just one question: what's a tourbillon?
french word for swirl
Mechanical component that essentially counter acts the affect of gravity when in a nonuniform orientation.
Swirl / whirl
I think its a dwarf that builds turrets.
i think it is called a dictionary or google or wikipedia...or the internet...
love JLC, probably my favorite Swiss brand, the fact that most posers don't know what it is makes it that much more special.
i've glued a Rolex crown on my JLC
It's like a little heartbeat. I love it.
Engineering and craftsmanship in these things is just exquisitely beautiful.
geez its like a nano heart!
to run it you need 1.21 gigawatts
😂😂👍🏻
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads... because I spent all my money on this watch and now I can't afford a car.
Jeff White My friend. you just broke Internet.
- Nikolai Tsakov
The internet can't be broken you mongol
Random Internet Citizen 102-39B but your face can 👊👊👊
This is truely impressive. First time I see such a machine.
gorgeous working art
great stocking stuffer idea! Xmas is right around the corner!
One never knows, papa xmas can be good sometimes!!!
TheWATCHES.tv wot
sneekyturbo1234 And the price is a steal!
yeah. BUT AS MUCH CRAP AS YOU CAN GET
Yeah if you have $350,000
drinking game:
drink a shot whenever he says "tourbillon"
dude wtf we did this and my brother in law is in the hospital now, he has to eat through a tube to his belly for the rest of his life, thank you very much
Damn! Were you guys taking shots of Drano?
Absolutely superb.
Love this!
Imagine dropping this.
That's cool but does it have a calculator? Didn't think so.
make one yourself then
Evil D my watch has one(fansy)
Doesn't even have internet or facebook. Use your smartphone and replay a movie of the gyro .
Some watches, like Breitling Navitimer has a built in sliderule ( Yes, a calculator without need for a battery), but most people nowadays don't even know how to work with a sliderule.. Too bad people are slowly turning "Stoopid" :)
Because u simply dont need to use the old tech and move on and use the new tech. Sliderulers were used by my grandma lol
You gave some gears to y x axis. In regards to gravity, watches are not static or moved slowly, imaging constantly dropping it on a hard surface or the wearer being a jogger, you see it's not the angle but the force of change in angles.
What a great piece. BRAVO.
This level of mechanical genius leaves one such as myself awestruck while admiring the design, construction and the complexity of this most marvelous tiny machine.A true piece of mechanical art worthy of it's own place in a museum.Five stars!!
Definitely mechanical art! All the best
If he sais tourbillon one more time...!
'tourbillon '
looooool
Sais is actually more appropriate bc it's French...badumtish.
It's a drinking game staring you right in the face!
to beyond..
"It's precise because it is not effected by the effect of gravity."
The inventors of this deserve a Nobel prize for inventing the first matter that isn't effected by gravitational time dilation.
Anthony Trupian well unless it imptoves gps idk about a nobel. But im inclined to beleive this thing would still be slowed relitistically by orbiting a black hole
I have a feeling I can't afford this watch, but this is really awesome engineering.
It's possible to 3D print a "close-ish" scaled up imitation of the gyrotourbillion, it won't keep time but it let's you enjoy the mesmerizing mechanics in motion
Now thats some high level craftsmanship ngl.
The clock in my $50 Blu 5 Advance is accurate to .000002 of a second'. I had a $2500 Rolex couldn't keep time for shit.
until the battery runs out or you loose connection to any source of datastream supplying you with data from a decent atomic watch...
The point of these watches are much more than to tell accurate time. There is a reason they cost so much. You pay for the thousands of man hours someone spent in designing and expensive machining needed to create these mechanical marvels .
Karthik C they are super fantastic.
your paying for the experience and prestige, of owning something like that
This watch is jewelry, a sculpture you wear, the functionality is secondary, to give you a reason to wear it. I would NEVER buy anything like this, but understand that much.
Amazing craftsmanship....The price though I don't know. Do I want a fancy sports car instead? Or maybe a house. Damn.
The type of people who buy this watch don't need to choose between those things, they just get them all!
+Nick Duel I would take the watch any day, if I had to choose :)
Is a hook for girls.
Wow that’s NICE !
*Breathtaking, just **_breathtaking_** artisanship!!! . . . .* ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💓
now THIS is art. not some 100k usd pieces of crap that i saw in many modern art museums nowadays.
+dudeinthesea
As electronic engineer and software developer I want to say that to develop software and electronic circuits is art too.
But mechanical and electronic hardware cannot be compared in same reason why you cannot compare apples and cheese. Someone like nuts, someone like apples. I like both
Roman I generally find Engineering as a form of art/craftmanship :) . My standard of art happens to be about the mastery of technical skills to the highest level through years of research and training. I just really like old-world crafts since it require so much skills so when i see very bull-crap overpriced art nowadays by hippies on drugs, it kinda gets to me lol.
+Roman agreed, but the level of craftsmanship dedicated to make this kind of watch is far greater and more exclusive. imagine to make a 14nm chip out of hand:)
+YuJia Liu Sorry, but I disagree! We can not be stuck in the age of manual craftsmanship!
The future humanity will appreciate the craftsmanship of Michelangelo and Bernini, cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale and co-axial escapement inventor George Daniels, but as the great Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pronounced: "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever".
Clockmaking - is the cradle! The Silicon Valley geniuses are the coryphaeus of the present and the future! Without information technology fits the humanity will be stuck forever in the cradle!
And please don't say that encrypting and coding demands lesser abstract, spacial and logical kind of thinking than the thinking of the mechanical masters of the past!
It is absolutely marvellous that hundreds of million people have, - thanks to the higher productivity and hence far lesser cost, - the access to the amazing wonders of computer engineering!
I dread to wake up in the previous centuries!
I partly agree with u, technology moves humanity forward, but things like this and lots others like hand build high end cars, hand made jewelry, fine wines and great paintings are the fuel to those people who bring us those technology:)
stunning - this is the difference between a Bugatti and a Prius!!!
Except that the "Prius" keeps better time... (Yes, I know. People who lust after this watch are not looking for a timepiece, but for mechanical art. Doesn't ring my chimes, but different strokes and all that.)
marvellous and perfectly unuseful, i.e. a real masterpiece of art!
Amazing and beautiful!
The question many of us are asking: "can I get one for less than I paid for my house?"
wish they would release 3d print files for this.
No
No
quiza comprando uno
No
yes
just when you thought mechanical timepieces were dead, the next level of engineering and design comes in
Incredible!
the _cheapest_ watch I could find with a gyrotourbillion was one hundred and sixty
_thousand_ dollars
adam savage one day build
OMFG, I love it! Love my skeleton watch and love this even more o.O
Fantástico
Wow - deeply impressive
work of art
Wow. This looks like some weird Dwemer artifact straight out of Skyrim. And it works, too!
Maybe... if i sold my home...
is your home worth $400,000?
More. Worth 400k and a good Rolex.
102punti well then go for it homes are over rated anyway
it's 490 000 euro which is 548 849 dollars
102punti llp
Espectacular!
It's so beautiful!
Send a unit over to the hydraulic press channel for durability testing😨
Tourbillon tourbillon, tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon. Toooourbillon! Tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon: tourbillon tourbillon tourbillon. Tourbillon.
He likes that word. I can't say I blame him.
Thorbeelons
Thank you!!!
Welcome!
I like the 3d CAD with liner Dimensioning. Awesome sketch design method.
My cell phone show me the time in any direction I hold it.
My $10 K-Mart Timex too and way cheaper.
Free shipping?
Of course ;)
Magnificent!
I think that is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
fucking amazing
Mechanical watches are art, those smart watches are toys.
Very well summarised, thanks for this insightful comment!!!
Smartwatches have their own purpose in the modern world, quartz watches are made to keep perfect time, mechanical watches are art, yes, maybe nostagic, but often are used just as status symbol.
I'd say mechanical watches are jewellery. With all it's pros and cons. I just regret that so much clever craftsmanship and engeneering and innovation time goes into an outdated technology where it could surely find good use in other products that are still mechanical AND state of the art... But timekeeping... well... it's like a whole part of car industry specializing on building Oldtimer cars... but.... world seems to need jewellery and brand managment has it's own goals...
wow that is so amazing
be cool to see a large version of this.