The Blancpain Tourbillon Carrousel elegantly combines both complications in this watch. The “carrousel” is in fact a complication that is similar to the tourbillon in theory, in which the regulation system is rotated to cancel out the effects of gravity.
It seems like the projector creator is trying to mislead backers into believing that some sort of a high-level complication has been incorporated into the movement. More importantly, the problem here lies in the misrepresentation of what is being offered.įurthermore, the project creator does not elaborate how its “resonance carousel” works. There is nothing wrong with having a Japanese or Chinese movement - the Miyota 9015 is very popular amongst boutique watchmakers. The similarities between the Montrex watch and this particular piece from the Shanghai Watch Company is simply uncanny. My guess is that it could either be a Japanese-sourced Miyota 9015 (this fits the 28,800 bph and 24 jewel description) or a Chinese movement, specifically one sourced from the Shanghai Watch Company. Montrex specifies its movement as having either 29 or 24 jewels, but both the ETA 28 (arguably the two most widely-used Swiss movement blanks) have 25 and 21 jewels respectively. In any case, the movement in the Montrex watch is unlikely to be Swiss. Movements need to bought from their respective manufacturers and owners. This is not the same as open source software such as Firefox and Android, which are readily available for download and are completely free. Major Swiss movement blank makers such as ETA, Sellita and Soprod do not give out their movements, much less blueprints or templates of their movements, for free. In this project, the creator is offering two timepieces and claims to use an “open source Suisse movement” that has been modified with a “resonance carousel”.įirst of all, there is no such thing as an "open source Suisse movement". One that got my attention was the Montrex Watch Project. Unfortunately, the success of the Pebble also led to an increase in the number of fraudulent projects on Kickstarter.
The Pebble made people realize that crowd-funding was a viable way of raising money for their projects. In the end, after almost a month, the Pebble smartwatch garnered an amazing US$10 million in funding. The people behind the Pebble had set a fundraising target of US$100,000 but that was surpassed within just two hours of the project going live. Recently, Kickstarter gained worldwide attention when the Pebble smartwatch became its most popular project ever. The project in question can be anything under the sun - movies, games, furniture, gadgets, you name it. Kickstarter is a crowd-funding platform that lets “project creators” reach out to “backers” to raise funds for their projects. In recent times, a service that is empowering a new generation of users is Kickstarter. It gave us Email and Instant Messaging, allowing users to quickly and efficiently communicate with one another regardless of time and place and it also gave us social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, allowing users to find friends and make connections with people from around the globe. As a tool for empowerment, the Internet is peerless.
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