The centrepieces of the new Tourbillon Tremblage are the painstakingly hand-crafted dial with a tremblage surface and the sophisticated tourbillon. The new model comes in rose gold and white gold versions, each limited to eight watches. The inner part with tremblage revives a historical technique to achieve an even look, creating an effect both rough and matt. At the heart of the dial is the tourbillon, flanked by the off-centre hour display at 3 o’clock and a second display at 9 o’clock. The fine tip of the minute hand sweeps past the minute scale around the dial’s outer perimeter. As the minute display is interrupted by the aperture for the tourbillon in the lower half of the dial, the minute hand has been extended beyond the centre. This counterpart now precisely presents minutes 25 to 35 on a scale. This twofold minute display is a special Moritz Grossmann feature and is patented. The generously sized oscillator, influenced by Alfred Helwig, is only mounted on one side and is visually impressive, especially with its unusually large diameter of 16mm. Whereas traditional tourbillons generally turn on their axis once a minute, the Moritz Grossmann construction takes a full three minutes to perform a rotation.
