Moritz Grossmann
MG-003862 Tourbillon Titanium

Moritz Grossmann MG-003862 Tourbillon Titanium

Traditional mechanics in a modern light: TOURBILLON Titanium and TOURBILLON Tremblage

The tourbillon is considered one of the most marvellous complications in the history of watchmaking. The manufactory Moritz Grossmann is shining a fresh light on it with the limited-edition models TOURBILLON Titanium and TOURBILLON Tremblage. Rather than being stylised artefacts, they are unquestionably contemporary with a modern aura owed to a new case and guilloche dial as well as a new colour.

TOURBILLON Titanium: the perfect body for a modern face The TOURBILLON Titanium combines the traditional tourbillon with the modern sophistication of a titanium case. This versatile metal used in fields such as aerospace has outstanding attributes including robustness, skin friendliness and corrosion resistance. It is also significantly lighter than other metals, which is a great benefit to the wearer’s comfort. Moreover, titanium has another attribute of a purely aesthetic nature: its somewhat darker, metallic sheen, which lends a further expression of beauty to the slender three-piece case.

The TOURBILLON Titanium’s classic and elegant case, with a slimline bezel, serves as the body for a dial consisting of a fine ‘grain d’orge’ guilloche pattern made of solid silver. While its bright lustre and simple typography are very much reflective of today’s standards, the dial maintains tradition, too, with the spaces beside the indicators and subsidiary dials bearing a fine guilloche pattern. Guilloche is a method based on an old handicraft and is produced using historical machines which engrave a fine-lined pattern. Each contour is cut into the metal separately, demanding a great deal of dexterity as the cutter is applied by hand and guided across the metal with individualised pressure. Creating an absolutely even decoration using this method is an art in and of itself.

Unconventional angles: the design of the dial

To make the tourbillon at 6 o’clock on the dial achieve its full effect, the hour and second indicators have been shifted from the centre. They have been equipped with two off-centre, deeper recessed subsidiary dials to create a symmetrical appearance. The dials, type and scales are presented in black print, as is the minute scale on the dial’s circumference. The hands are produced manually at the manufactory and tempered to a brown-violet hue.

The Moritz Grossmann brand name is a modern detail that serves as a signature on the dial atop a curved emblem at 12 o’clock.

Special features

Flying three-minute tourbillon with screw-secured driving wheel and V-shaped balance bridge (protected as a registered design); central minute display, off-centre display for hours and seconds with stop-second function, bridging of the scale gap in the minute dial from 25–35 minutes via a hand extension with separate scale (patented); stop-second function on balance rim with intervention by a hair brush (patented); asymmetric-arm lever escapement with counterweight and lever banking pin; Grossmann balance with a suspended balance spring and regulation via poising screws in the balance rim; newly developed jewel bearing for the barrel; brake ring on the second arbor made of very hard, oily lignum vitae; movement wheels made of ARCAP; Grossmann manual winder with pusher to override hand setting and to start movement; modified Glashütte recoil click; pillar movement with plate and frame pillars made of untreated German silver; plate and tourbillon cock hand-engraved; broad horizontal Glashütte ribbing; 3-band snailing on the ratchet wheel; raised gold chatons with pan-head screws; white sapphires as jewels; separately removable yoke winding mechanism.