Rare Watches: (?) A tourbillon on a Rolex Milgauss

Here, we investigate a new release from a little known custom house by the name of Label Noir, who retrofitted a tourbillon into a Rolex Milgauss, but not before blackening the case first Now, their CEO and watchmaker Emmanuel Curti, have made a world premiere, and retrofitted a tourbillon into a Rolex Created as a special request by a somewhat "Crazy" client, they began work of replacing the original Milgauss caliber from the client with a tourbillon in a size compatible with the space available.

Making this the first Rolex to sport a tourbillon escapement Though not on a Rolex, I have personally known watchmakers like Richard Habring who have retrofitted a tourbillon into an IWC caliber as early as in 1998 Though not a tourbillon, Franck Muller himself have made a retrofit of a perpetual calendar with moonphase display as his graduation watch at the Ecole d'Horlogerie de Genève in 1978 into a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

Label Noir says it is making this tourbillon retrofit available to other customers who can supply their own Rolex. . Source