UTS Tourbillon Watch - Really?

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Mar 26th 2010 at 12:01PM

Call me old fashioned by I like my rugged durable watches - rugged and durable. When I think of a tank manufacturer, I don't ever want them to consider making a tank out of gold. That seems to be metaphorically what German UTS did by making this tourbillon watch. The expensive complication is delicate and more of an horological cause for bragging. It's barely something that assists in function or durability. So why put one in there? Pretty much just to say that you did, and to satisfy a certain realm of collectors. The manually wound tourbillon movement has a power reserve of three days and is made by SST, a movement company now owned by Bovet Dimier. The watch is water resistant to 1000 meters and the open tourbillon escapement carriage looks misplaced on UTS's typically minimalist, functional dials. I just sort of roll my eyes at this and think of the brand as a little less pure. Price for this rare piece is about 30,000 euros. No deal for me.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: tourbillon, UTS, uts tourbillon watch, watch

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

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Ty Mar 26th 2010 10:15PM

I'm a big fan of UTS, while I cannot afford this watch I would own one.
Your news is very old by the way. UTS came out with this model over
3 years ago. Why not post about something new? Did you even know they have a new 1000m diver GMT, even the 2000m is newer than this. I recently read your posting about a Chinese made tourbillon why bash the UTS?

Ariel Adams Mar 26th 2010 3:40PM

Hey TY,
I like UTS as well, and I intend on covering their new GMT. I understand that this is older news, but I like to revisit topics that I did not discuss before. I think it is important for people to see good and bad implementations of tourbillons.. We seem to agree that this was silly for UTS, and realizing that is much easier in hindsight. Thanks for your comment and I appreciate your readership.

Best,

Ariel

Ty Mar 26th 2010 10:23PM

I don't think the UTS Tourbillion is "silly" I neve said that. In fact I would own one if I had the money. It is interesting you think it's silly though, since you just purchased a longio and talked about how great it was. Fact of the matter is UTS was among the first to make a 1000m rated watch with a tourbillion movement. They are an inovative company you should do a little more research.