Carl F. Bucherer's Tourbillon Heralds A New Beginning

Earlier this year at the Baselworld watch fair in Switzerland, Carl F Bucherer introduced a new tourbillon movement, the CFB T3000 It's an impressive watchmaking feat, since it employs a peripherally mounted tourbillon cage that looks as though it is floating in the dial because it doesn't need bridges for mounting.

The Swiss watchmaker first started using an automatic peripheral winding system back in 2008, with its COSC-certified CFB A2000 movement, which has since been used by top tier watchmakers like Breguet and Jaeger-LeCoultre "We were the first company in the world to successfully produce this movement," Carl F Bucherer CEP Sascha Moeri told a crowd of journalists at New York's 60 Thompson hotel this week.

"There were other companies already working on this peripheral system, but nobody had successfully created it before." Now the watchmaker is taking that technology and upping the ante by introducing the Heritage Tourbillon Double Peripheral Limited-Edition-a watch that employs its peripherally mounted tourbillon, while playing up the company's history with a caseback featuring a hand-engraving of the city of Lucerne and its landmark Chapel Bridge The timepiece is the first introduction in what Moeri says will be future releases of limited-edition watches that play up the brand's history Watch companies have, for some time, been introducing unique limited-edition models, based on heritage timepieces, in small quantities to control supply and increase interest. Source