Vélin · Genève · MMXXVI
Time,held ingold.
Tourbillon · Ref. 1788
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Hold the crown to wind it
Live · your time
The dial on this page is set to your clock and sweeps at eight beats a second, just like calibre V-88. Beneath it, the tourbillon cage turns to cancel the pull of gravity.
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Every bridge is bevelled by hand, every screw flame-blued. Nobody will ever see most of it. We finish it anyway.
Each one could be a watch on its own. Here they share a 40mm case and never crowd each other.
Tourbillon
A cage that turns once a minute, averaging out the errors gravity puts into the balance.
Power reserve
Three days on a full wind. The hand at 3 o'clock tells you when to give the crown a turn.
Moon phase
Accurate to one day in 122 years. Painted by hand on a disc of aventurine glass.
Élise Marchand, Maître horloger
238 years in Geneva
- Jean-Baptiste Vélin opens a cabinotier's workshop above the Rhône in Geneva.
- The house's first tourbillon pocket watch, made for a Russian court astronomer.
- Vélin's first wristwatch. The Horizon name appears on its case back.
- The workshop refuses quartz and keeps every one of its twelve watchmakers.
- Vélin Ref. 1788. Eighty-eight pieces for the house's anniversary.
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