Labyrinth Tourbillon
An exceptional masterpiece
With its new TOURBILLON piece, limited only to 28 watches, MICHEL JORDI draws his inspiration from the Greek mythology.
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In ancient times, a labyrinth sheltered the Minotaur, a part-man part-bull creature, which Theseus managed to kill. To find the way out, the latter followed the thread, which Ariadne had given to him and which he placed at the entrance of the maze to unwind it up to the Minotaur's location.
MICHEL JORDI's LABYRINTH TOURBILLON also uses this principle. On the upper case, numbers are the corridors of the maze enabling to access to the « Minotaur », embodied, this time, by a magnifying glass (x 2.5) unveiling the TOURBILLON located on the lower case.
In order to prevent you from losing yourself, Ariadne exchanged her ball of thread with a more modern hinge.
In pressing on the hinge, whilst making the upper case slide, we « exit » the labyrinth and discover the lower case indicating hours, minutes, GMT, power reserve (5 days) and of course, the FLYING TOURBILLON.
A long time has elapsed since the invention of the first tourbillon in 1801. Initially used for pocket watches, the tourbillon only started to gain momentum in bracelet watches in 1987 …
Many watchmaking houses seek to stand out by using this old complication in their timepieces. This is all very well but the tourbillon concept often hides different realities.
True to his spirit, Michel Jordi has sent down a spinner in creating a different tourbillon to the ones hitherto available on the market
Its name? The LABYRINTH TOURBILLON
It is in fact a flying tourbillon.
It first creates a stir due to its size with a 13 mm diameter tourbillon case.
We can also see that tourbillon lugs (more commonly called ”bars”) are inexistant. The rotation axis is indeed held by 2 ruby bearings located in the case (at 5 o'clock), enabling the flying Tourbillon to be admired undisturbed.
This difference, enhanced by the fact that the assortment is entirely built in house (except for the hair spring), brings to the flying tourbillon both aesthetic beauty and quality.
With a movement endowed with a 5 days power reserve autonomy, with a weights balance (in gold) enabling to set the balance rotational inertia, this 13'' tourbillon has an escapement wheel and a straight-line lever in polished hardened steel. .
The crown presents 3 positions. The first one is for winding up the piece, the second one for setting the time and the third one for the GMT settings (2nd time zone).
The trick of the structure of this TWINS enables Michel Jordi to provide the upper case with a loupe (enlargement x 2.5) to highlight the beautiful flying tourbillon mechanism making a full rotation of 360° in 1 minute.
A genuine masterpiece, resulting from unceasing striving for innovation and quality; a unique piece in line with the TWINS philosophy, limited to 2 x 24 watches (white and bicoloured gold) and signed Michel Jordi.
TECHNICAL DATA
| Number of rubies: | 25 |
| Number of lines: | 13'' |
| Total diameter: | 30,40mm |
| Total thickness: | 7mm |
| Frequency: | 21'600 A/h – 3 Hz |
| Power reserve: | 5 days (120 hours) |
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