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Zurich: 00:21 (MEZ) | Saturday, January 10 2009 |  -5 degrees, dry

The three bridges tourbillon

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The three bridges tourbillon from Girard-Perregaux

From 8 November to 16 December 2005, our Clock and Watch Museum featured the world of the three bridges tourbillon from the Girard-Perregaux manufacture. Visitors were able to experience the fascinating and exciting manner in which this unique movement came into being. No other watch that is still made to this day can boast a movement whose origins stretch back such a long way. The first tourbillon with three gold bridges dates back to 1889. Thanks to its technical complications and its use, the tourbillon is also regarded as the watchmaker’s greatest challenge in aesthetic terms, thus at the same time making it the watchmaker’s dream. As a result, it was high time that we devoted an exhibition to this particular theme and paid homage to the myth of the tourbillon. The objects on display came from the collections of Girard-Perregaux, the Musée International d’Horlogerie and the Swiss National Museum.