Marc Obermann
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Both are really quite stunning
But I am a little confused about the Flying Minute Tourbillon as I noticed they looked different in the two watches and having read your great and informative post discovered that the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon consists of 85 parts and weighs 0.635 grams whilst in the Big Pilots Watch 43 Tourbillon it consists of just 56 parts yet weighs the same 0.635 grams. Whilst I have to admit to not knowing a lot about Flying Minute Tourbillons I can't really understand why the same complication in two watches would require a different number of parts but yet still weigh the same, Enquiring minds need to know if possible.
Marc
IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN PRESENTS NEW PILOT’S WATCHES IN BLUE CERAMIC AND PLATINUM DEDICATED TO “THE LITTLE PRINCE”
Schaffhausen, 21 st May 2025: IWC Schaffhausen presents two new Pilot’s Watches dedicated to Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s famous novel, “The Little Prince”. The Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Le Petit Prince combines a blue ceramic case and...
Both are really quite stunning
But I am a little confused about the Flying Minute Tourbillon as I noticed they looked different in the two watches and having read your great and informative post discovered that the Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon consists of 85 parts an...
I understood that but why are the Flying Minute Tourbillons different is what I don't get.
Unless I just don't really understand how Tourbillons work I am struggling to see why they would perform the same function yet consist of a different number of parts and yet still weigh the same. I do understand that a Tourbillon is a mechanism that rotat...