5 Watches That Blew My Mind 🤯

I've seen a lot of watches in my time a lot of watches and some have stuck with me more than others these are some of the most mind-blowing watches I've ever seen the last one is just well you'll see want a mind-blowing watch of your own check out the pre-owned selection at watchfinder.com I've never met Mr Francois Paul John butter I can imagine he's the kind of man who just can't walk past a wonky picture frame without tell you a story at the tail end of the 18th century the culmination of two of the greatest Minds in watchmaking history John Arnold and Abraham Louis brege came to be the tourbillon these guys really were the best of friends they admired the work of the other so much they swapped Sons as apprentices Jon unfortunately died in 1799 and so when Abraham Louis was finally able to realize a physical version of the tourbillon he gifted it to John's son today the tourbillon continues to exist in acknowledgment of the work of these two great men even though really it serves no purpose anymore it was developed to work in a pocket watch negating gravity's Effects by applying the force evenly over the whole putting it in a modern wristwatch is a bit like putting a trough at the gas station to feed the horses nevertheless watchmakers still do it because it's an incredible historical achievement even if it does hang a little wonky on the wall the flaws are its character its imperfection a bookmark in the pages of History not to Francois bonjourn apparently he decided that if a tourbillon deserved to be in his watch it needed to earn its keep and actually do some useful work so for the FP Jean tourbillon silver Reign he decided to reorientate the balance within the 42 millimeter Platinum case so it would have to fight gravity once more like it did in those pocket watches just so the tourbillon actually had something to do that's like taking the roof off the house to get more use out of an umbrella the difficulty with this is that a watch is designed for it to lay flat both in terms of mechanics and fitment so there needed to be 90 degree gearing to turn the power around the corner and a 13.6 millimeter thick case to fit it all in no matter it's not a bug it's a feature and so Jean fitted a whacking great 360 degree mirror around the tourbillon so you can see it better and if that wasn't enough June decided to give the tourbillon silverain a Ramen to our system as well which evens out the diminishing torque of the mainspring for better long-term accuracy the visual outcome of this is that the second hand of this 300 000 watch ticks like a quartz the king of tourbillon's you don't have to pay three hundred thousand dollars to get one of these incredible little devices there are many Swiss watchmakers who make one for you for closer to fifty thousand dollars or in the case of the very cheapest with tourbillons ten thousand dollars bargain oh yeah and you can also get a genuine working not terrible tourbillon watch for 500 Tag Heuer will barely sell you a quartz for that and I'm talking about a proper manual wind mechanical tourbillon for the price of a PlayStation what makes a tourbillon such a revered thing to have in a watch because it's as complicated as my relationship with my dad a mechanical escapement is already a mind-meltingly confusing thing and then the tourbillon picks the whole lot up and Spins it round and around like it's no big deal it's like spinning a basketball on your finger and then you start spinning as well at best you'll fall over and hurt yourself at worst you'll create a singularity and end the universe as know it what's really going to bake your noodle is when you think about what's mechanically required to make it work I'm sure you understand the principle of how one gear that's spinning makes another gear spin what I want you to think about is if that second gear is sat on a platform that's already spinning how does that first gear still do its thing I can't figure it out but the Chinese can it turns out because that's where this suggest tourbillon comes from it's got a Chinese seagull st8230 caliber inside and that's the thing we're all here for I can't emphasize this enough this is a genuine torbjorn movement that works reliably for just five hundred dollars mark my words this is just the beginning of the watchmaking we're going to see from China the record for the thinnest watch in the world is currently held by the Richard Mill up01 Ferrari at just 1.75 millimeters thick that superseded the Bulgari octo-finissimo Ultra by 0.05 millimeters two unbelievable achievements but naturally compromised by their pursuit of ultimate thinness that leaves the Piaget ultiplano ultimate concept at a comparatively Porky two millimeters thick still the thinnest watch in the world that's really still a normal watch what do I mean by that well with the Bulgari the crown is split into two for winding and setting and are on their sides rather than in a typical Crown orientation the hour and minute hands 2 are separated onto different dials to fit them both in and then the reshard meal is like the Jackson Pollock of watchmaking by comparison the Piaget has a normal crown ish it's flattened to fit it within the case but it still winds like you'd expect even if Piaget supplies you with a little tool to help you a normal Pair of Hands on a normal if smaller dial and it doesn't look like someone tried to force their watch into a credit card reader bonus it was no easy feat to achieve such a thing there was some pretty clever thinking required for instance a watch movement is usually built separately and loaded into the rear steady on and sealed in with the case bag not here the case and case back are one single piece a monoblock of ultra tough Cobalt alloy that's unbendable and basically ruined all of Piaget's machines trying to make it it's also got the fitment for the movement Parts already in it so it becomes the main plate of the movement as well to save space so all that is loaded into the front and then sealed in with the crystal smart at least they thought it was smart until the watch started running way too fast it was fine without the Crystal and went haywire with they figured out the balance was running so close to the crystal it was generating a static charge and binding the spring together they hadn't thought of it because it was a problem never experienced before in hundreds of years of watchmaking a nice little anti-static coating on the inside of the Crystal and they were good to go I'm not sure what blows my mind most about the Quorum bubble magical 3D skull is it the sapphire crystal so heavily domed it can be seen from space how about the three-dimensional skull sitting beneath said Crystal peering out with an oddly worried expression maybe it's the name bubble magical 3D skull that leaves me feeling in utter or or perhaps it's that people wearing suits working at a Swiss watchmaker looked at this and agreed to make it perhaps it's not as mad as all that maybe it wears a lot smaller in real life nope this watch is 52 millimeters across there are smaller U-boats I mean the watches and the submarines it is just so damn big so that means the crystal sits so high it grazes low-flying aircraft I'm honestly surprised it doesn't Focus the Sun and burn a hole through your arm how about that skull now it's not the first time a skull's been seen in a wristwatch but it is the first that's been rendered as a topographical map despite being almost the same size as an actual human skull it looks like it was printed on the world's first 3D printer the resolution is so poor it makes early YouTube look like IMAX this effect is no further improved by the massive magnification properties of the monster Crystal I'm still trying to work out if that's a positive or A negative I think it might be the name that really gets me core and bubble magical 3D skull it sounds like a badly translated Halloween costume and I suppose it kind of is what if you come as a lunatic watch collector no the most mind-blowing thing about the bubble magical 3D skull is its very existence it must have been the day the CEO was off sick and through a series of wacky events each wackier and more unbelievable than the last the intern was left in charge I can't think of any other reason for it to be more than just the fading memory of a fever dream and I'm here for it but perhaps the most mind-blowing watch I've seen in a long while is the unlangan Zone 1131 it's a pretty unremarkable looking watch in the sense that yes it seems very well made as you'd expect but otherwise looks like typical lung affair there's the big date how long has owner likes those makes it nice and easy to read the hour and minute hands are clear and sharp like two dueling swords a sub second display does its thing at six o'clock letting you know the watch is running and then there's the power Reserve it's pretty big as power reserves Go I mean that as in this space it takes up on the dial and the time it lasts for because look closer and you'll see the full end of the scale reads 31. that's not 31 hours that's 31 days a full 744 hours why shut up that's why the real question is why not and as for how there's a mainspring in there that's nearly two meters long actually there's two of them that's enough mainspring to extend from the front to the back of the BMW Mini you own a manually wound watch you might be wondering something when a manual watch is bone dry winding it is very easy by the time you get to two three days it becomes a bit more of a challenge multiply that by 10 and you have a mainspring that's harder to wind than a hundred foot garden hose this is our London Zona we're talking about so whilst it was busy inventing solutions to problems that didn't exist and thus creating problems that needed solutions that shouldn't exist it engineered a winding key that slots directly into the mainspring to top up that Mammoth power Reserve like the most expensive fidget spinner in the world that key the design is so deliciously ergonomic and the ratchet mechanism inside so pleasingly satisfying that the whole thing together creates another new problem that no one had anticipated you have to wait a whole month before you get to enjoy winding it again what mind-blowing watches have you seen and what blew your mind about them let me know down in the comments below please also like And subscribe and check out your next watch over at watchfinder.com

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Length: 12min 52sec (772 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2023