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Thomas Prescher presents the Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator

June 2010


www.worldwatchweb.com - A triple-axis tourbillon is extremely rare; a triple-axis tourbillon wristwatch even more so. However, Thomas Prescher’s triple-axis flying tourbillon is not simply extremely rare – it is absolutely unique.

Thomas Prescher presents the Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator

Prescher’s Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator features one of the world’s most exclusive and most difficult complications to assemble, set to stunning advantage in a jet-black natural onyx dial that contrasts beautifully with the pink-gold case. Regulator-style hours and seconds are each indicated in their own separate sub-dial, while the constantly animated tourbillon tracks the minutes during its one-hour rotation.

Thomas Prescher presents the Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator

Thomas Prescher has both an affinity and a talent for complicated tourbillons: while his classmates were submitting simple movements for their watch at the end of apprenticeship school, Prescher presented a half-flying tourbillon that confirmed his position as the top of the form. In 2003 he presented the world’s first pocket watch with a flying double-axis tourbillon.

Thomas Prescher presents the Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator Thomas Prescher

On seeing Prescher’s pocket watch, one of his colleagues mentioned that he thought a double-axis tourbillon was impossible in the constrained space of a wristwatch. Prescher not only met but surpassed the challenge a year later with a wristwatch trilogy of single-axis, double-axis and triple-axis tourbillons.

Source: Thomas Prescher

www.prescher.ch

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