
George Kidwell
Senior Cataloguer
£35,000 - £45,000
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The Tourbillon was invented in 1795 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, a tourbillon counters the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, ostensibly in order to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece (and thus the escapement) is rotated.