Bentley once offered a self-winding tourbillon clock on the dashboard of its Bentayga SUV for £150,000. That was the price of the clock, by the way, not the car. So why are tourbillons so expensive?

Clocks were driven by heavy weights that made ... a kind of anti-gravity chamber that he called a tourbillon, a French word meaning ‘whirlwind’. A single-axis tourbillon in motion.

Now part of Bugatti Rimac, a 55/45 joint venture between Rimac and Porsche, it’s with that history and the electrified future in mind that new company chair Mate Rimac launches the Tourbillon.

Richard Mille releases a new watch with Ferrari, marking the fifth in a lineage of split-second tourbillon watches dating ...

It may only run for a brief time, and it’s too big for use in an actual wristwatch, but this 3D-printed tourbillon is a great demonstration of the lengths watchmakers will go to to keep ...

Or, for more than double that, Richard Mille will hand over its latest Ferrari-branded watch. Two versions are available, ...

A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by ...

Here, it is simply exquisite. Offset within a heavily skeletonised dial, the tourbillon spins proudly at the 7 o'clock position. That's neatly offset by the star shaped bridges at 1 o'clock.

It is a playful foil for the sharp technicality at the heart of the watch, with the tourbillon, visible at 6 o’clock, completing one rotation every minute. The lightning bolt shape of the tourbillon ...

A pusher at 7 o’clock initiates the spinning, enhancing the interactive experience of the timepiece. The Casino Tourbillon is made from high-quality materials, with the roulette table and ...