
George Kidwell
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The Tourbillon was invented in 1795 by Abraham-Louis Breguet for use in pocket watches, a tourbillon counters the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, in order to negate upsetting the isochronism caused by the effect of gravity on any heavy point on the balance wheel itself.