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Greubel Forsey

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Overview

Founded in 2004 at La Chaux-de-Fonds by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey, producing on the order of a hundred watches a year. Its founding work was a series of tourbillon constructions addressing a stated chronometric problem — that a single-axis tourbillon averages positional error only within its own plane — through geometry: inclined carriages, nested carriages, and carriages rotating in twenty-four seconds rather than sixty. Its hand finishing is generally regarded as the most extreme in series watchmaking.

Notable innovations

  • · Double Tourbillon 30° (2004), an inclined carriage nested within a slower outer one
  • · Tourbillon 24 Secondes, an inclined carriage rotating in twenty-four seconds
Official name
Greubel Forsey SA
Country
Switzerland
Founded
2004
Headquarters
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Status
active

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