Tourbillon wristwatches are lamentably commonplace in contemporary watchmaking. They are available in all shapes, sizes and axes, and Top Replica Swiss Watches some are even, horrors, downmarket.

That year Omega created a dozen prototypes of the cal. 30I movement, a 30mm size, hand-wound calibre with a tourbillon regulator. Unusually the Luxury Replica Watches tourbillon cage took 7.5 minutes to complete a full rotation, in contrast to the standard one minute revolution that majority of wristwatch tourbillons.

Despite being a landmark wristwatch, the prototype is a modest affair in person. The steel case is 37.5mm in diameter, while the dial is two-tone and handsome, but from the outside, the watch is indistinguishable from an ordinary Best Luxury Replica Watches Omega of the same period.

The tourbillon is, unsurprisingly, constructed according to the then prevailing wisdom for chronometers, meaning a bimetallic Replica Watches Guillaume balance with poising screws on the rim and a hairspring with Breguet overcoil. The look, feel and history of the watch make it a supremely nerdy timepiece.