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The Evolution of the Hacking Tourbillon: How Watchmakers Solved Timekeeping’s Trickiest Engineering Challenge

Conventional wisdom holds that stopping a tourbillon for precise time setting—known as "hacking" in watchmaking parlance—is a remarkably difficult endeavor given the constant, uninterrupted rotation of the carriage.…

Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 6:40 AM