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...pieces?52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled from start to finish by a single craftsman at Daniel Roth & Gérald Genta, Bulgari's workshop for its most complicated timepieces, in Le Sentier, Switzerland. A "grand complication"?as the most complex watches, like Tourbillons, are called?requires more than 3,000 production steps and 300 quality-assurance checks. Each watch can take up to a week to be assembled. No detail is ignored: at the Le Sentier atelier, as at the Bulgari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes A Watch Tick | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...atelier in Le Sentier, enormous machines and careful handiwork produce the components of a grand complication before it is assembled with exquisite precision, right. The movement is then put into the case, and details like the dial and hands are added, far right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes A Watch Tick | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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