Review: Blancpain – L’Evolution Tourbillon Carrousel

Alvin Wong 26 November 2015

The carrousel is a Blancpain specialty that tends to elicit raised eyebrows from watch lovers.

And that’s because it looks similar to a tourbillon, and even purports to perform a similar function. The difference lies in in the way they are mounted. The tourbillon carriage is fixed to pinion driven by a wheel, while the carrousel carriage is mounted on a wheel driven by a pinion. On the sporty L-Evolution, both complications are paraded side-by-side on the dial. Besides adding aesthetic verve, both complications help double-up on timekeeping precision. Limited to 50 pieces.

Price: S$517,000 (includ GST)

Alvin Wong

Ex Editor-In Chief

Alvin promises not to be a douche when talking about watches. He may have scoured the Basel and Geneva watch fairs for the past 15 years, and played an instrumental role to the growth of Singapore's pioneering horological and men's lifestyle publications, but the intrepid scribe seeks to learn something new with each story he writes.

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