![]() What does that mean for you? Well, it means the impossible becomes possible. But, like Switzerland, China’s capabilities are improving every single day, and a fully functional tourbillon is proof of that. The irony really is that Switzerland started off making watches in much the same way as China did: producing poor quality, cheap fakes. It makes chronographs, hand wound and automatic, minute repeaters-and of course tourbillons. It’s the biggest producer of watches in China, and not just the simple stuff. That makes it considerably older than successful Swiss brands like Hublot, not to mention having a history of making mechanical watches the right side of the quartz crisis. Seagull has been making watches, in China, by order of the Chinese government, since 1955. The bit we’re interested in here, the calibre ST8230, is made specifically in Tianjin by a company called Seagull, and you may think that sounds terrible-but wait a minute. ![]() Never mind the $73,500 Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultra Thin Tourbillon or the $117,000 Vacheron Constantin Fiftysix Tourbillon-this watch is thirty times cheaper than the cheapest tourbillon Switzerland can muster.Ĭan you guess where it was made? I’m hearing China … are we saying China? Yes, it’s China. ![]() We both know that because even the cheapest Swiss-made tourbillon, the TAG Heuer Carrera Heuer 02-T is, at $16,000, magnitudes more expensive than this. We both know this is not a Swiss-made watch.
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