America?s largest luxury watch show, WatchTime New York, returns to Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 13-14 (Click here for event details and to purchase tickets). For the first time, independent Swiss complications specialist Antoine Preziuso will be among the exhibitors, showcasing his groundbreaking AFP-TTR-3X Chronometer “Tourbillon of Tourbillons.”
The watch features three tourbillons on a revolving plate separated by meteorite masselottes.
The watch ? the product of a decade-long collaboration between Preziuso, a Geneva native with Italian roots who has been been making watches under his own name since 1991, and his son, Florian ? is distinguished by its three tourbillons on a revolving plate, governed by a central planetary triple differential, and its use of the world’s smallest ball bearing, just 1.6 mm in diameter, in its manual-winding movement. Preziuso has obtained three patents for the Chronometer Tourbillon of Tourbillons, each of which plays a role in the watch’s timekeeping accuracy:

Multiple Tourbillons on a Revolving Plate: Each of the the three independent regulating tourbillons ? separated by three masselottes made of meteorite, which Preziuso has been using in his timepieces since 2002 ? completes one rotation per minute, at a faster rhythm than the plate, which completes six rotations per hour, or one rotation every ten minutes. The speed at which the tourbillons rotate is accelerated by this double revolution. The tourbill...