Best of the Best 2016: Style | Men's Watches: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision

Dress Watch: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision · Robb Report

James D. Malcolmson

Updated Mon, May 23, 2016, 11:00 PM

Dress Watch: Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision

Despite Greubel For-sey’s intrepid chronometric pursuits, the brand’s massive cases and sometimes asymmetric designs tend to appeal to a select segment of enthusiasts. The Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision, however, challenges this tendency by combining the house’s audacious watchmaking with a smaller, slimmer, almost classical case. Fired-enamel numerals—as difficult to execute as the movement finishing—bring the dial in line with the daring concepts we have come to expect from the company.

The inclined tourbillon rotates once every 24 seconds for optimum position-error correction.
The movement features a high degree of hand finishing with frosted plates, polished beveled edges, and multiple uses of black-mirror polishing.
The sapphire bubble on the caseback enables a reduction in the thickness of the case.

Greubel Forsey, greubelforsey.com ($325,000)