It had no crown, no convention, a movement that told time by turning. Twenty-five years and 35 patented inventions later, Ulysse Nardin has pushed the concept to its absolute limit. Meet the [Super] Freak. It’s the most complicated time-only watch ever made. Inside its 44mm white gold case, 511 components — 97% of them in constant motion — power the world’s first automatic double tourbillon. Two flying tourbillons, each inclined at 10 degrees, rotate in opposite directions every 60 seconds. The patented Grinder winding system feeds the beast. A newly patented gimbal system, the world’s smallest at 4.8mm, enables a seconds display never before seen in a Freak. Sixty hours of assembly. One watchmaker, start to finish. Fifty pieces total. This is what a quarter-century of obsession looks like; Ulysse-Nardin.com.
