Part 2: A real bargain?
Original Tourillon-automatic-work in Tourbillon-style
It is an unusual offer that SPLENDOR SA from Zurich offers its potential customers. As „watch of the month“, an „ASTRON Master-Tourillon“ is offered for 89 Euro plus 7,60 Euro shipping. A watch in – as stated - in „Tourbillon-look“ is actually nothing else than a watch with a simple open balancing wheel, which have been offered especially in China works for years now. Unfortunately, this has very little to do with a Tourbilllon and even the 24 h advertisement does not justify the price in our opinion. Even if the word creation „Tourillon“ - is admittedly very creative.
The full-bodied advertisement promise on the homepage. „Here original Swiss watches are still mainly made in manual work. The produced quantities per edition are accordingly small and the effort is correspondingly high.“ May even be true, however, then it should also be stated that clockworks from Far-East production are used.