Budget Tourbillon

[Spice_Weasel]

The BHI have a couple of Tourbillon models selling at under £500.

See http://www.bhi.co.uk/Watch.html for details.

[cyberface]

Spice_Weasel said:

The BHI have a couple of Tourbillon models selling at under £500.

See http://www.bhi.co.uk/Watch.html for details.

Yeah but they've got the Liaoning tourby movement in them - pretty much the least elegant and least delicate. Compare the cage on the balance with Sea-Gull's tourby - Sea-Gull's is delicate, elegant and individual. Liaoning's tourby just looks 'chunky' to me, and that ain't right. Perhaps they're the only 'reasonably' priced tourbillons - I'd want Sea-Gull's version if I was buying Chinese, but Sea-Gull are charging thousands for theirs

Liaoning are the guys making the reverse-engineered 7750 copy that you find in every fake chronograph on the market. Whether I'm a hypocrite for flaming Liaoning for the 7750 copy when simultaneously being nice about Sea-Gull (who make two non-chrono ETA clones, of the 2824 and 2892, IIRC) - is an exercise for the reader

As to the particular watch - I linked to it on the last tourbillon thread, it's been around a while - however the 'power reserve' version is new. My problem with the original BHI anniversary tourbillon was the size of the BHI crest, which just looked 'too much' to me. But the power reserve version is slightly more subtle, and includes a useful complication (it is manual wind, after all).

Hmmm. Tempted, as my hopes of getting a Sea-Gull tourbillon at less than a grand seem to have evaporated...

[Maxf]

The BHI tourbillon looks awkward. The screws used look poor and not even colour matches shows a lack of care, IMO.

I'd hold out for a used Sea-gull as I'm sure they will lose a significant % of their RRP.