WatchTime New York, America’s luxury watch show, hits the Big Apple like a horological whirlwind this weekend! “Whirlwind,” incidentally, is the literal translation of “tourbillon,” one of the watch world’s most coveted high complications. Here are five of the most intriguing tourbillon-equipped timepieces that will be on display at Gotham Hall.
Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Rétrograde

Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Volant Heure Sautante Minute Rétrograde
This watch is a reinterpretation of the brand?s groundbreaking flying tourbillon watch ? an industry first when it was launched in 1989 ? with two new complications used for the very first time in Blancpain’s über-elegant Villeret collection. In this model, which comes in a double-stepped 42-mm rose gold case, the tourbillon cage, already unobstructed by the upper bridge used in traditional (i.e., non-flying) tourbillon construction is fully in view, as Blancpain has removed the lower bridge and replaced it with a clear sapphire disk. The visual effect makes it appear as though the balance wheel and escapement inside the tourbillon cage are floating in space. Blancpain has also added, for the first time in any of its models, both a jumping hour and a retrograde minutes display. The round, gold-rimmed window indicating the digital hour numerals has been placed inside the minutes subdial, under the tourbillon aperture, to complete the look of the clas...