{"id":14968,"date":"2021-07-15T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchinsanity.it\/?p=14968"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:25:41","slug":"greubel-forsey-gmt-sport-nuova-limited-edition-in-oro-rosso-per-un-vero-capolavoro-darte-contemporanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchinsanity.it\/en\/greubel-forsey-gmt-sport-nuova-limited-edition-in-oro-rosso-per-un-vero-capolavoro-darte-contemporanea\/","title":{"rendered":"Greubel Forsey: GMT Sport, New Limited Edition In Red Gold : A True Contemporary Art Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greubel Forsey<\/strong> is to watchmaking what Damien Hirst<\/strong> is to contemporary art. Not so much for their attitude – Hirst’s is obviously much more provocative – but for the competition spirit, as solo as triumphant, that both are running in their respective sectors. In the specific case of the professional union between Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey, dated 2004, that can be seen in the numbers that certify absolute excellence, with a hundred-or-so watches produced every year<\/strong>, made by 120 employees and with as many as 36 workers in the finishing department alone (simply crazy and, in some cases, probably unique: just think of the various relief engravings that we find on various models of the collection \u2013 on the dial, bezel and case middle \u2013 in reference to the founding values of the brand). At this point, a question arises spontaneously: how does a company manage to survive with these numbers? The answer is just as simple. It speaks to a worldwide clientele that wants only the best without taking into consideration the economic aspect; and therefore, for these enthusiasts, it is quite natural to not even blink an eye when faced with a catalog featuring prices starting from 200 thousand euros and reaching well over a million euros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A SOUL FROM NINETEETH CENTURY WHICH CARRIED THE TOURBILLON INTO THE FUTURE<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Among the various fil rouge <\/em>threading the work of Robert Greubel<\/strong> and Stephen Forsey<\/strong>, the primary one is linked to the tourbillon \u2013 invented, as everybody knows, by Abraham-Louis Breguet, with a patent dated June 26, 1801<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 which the La Chaux-de-Fonds masters have completely re-imagined with astonishing and jaw-dropping solutions that make us whisper an ecstatic “wow”, such as the Tourbillon 24 Secondes<\/strong> \u2013 encased between 12 and 2 o’clock on the watch we are presenting in this article \u2013 with its cage inclined at 25\u00b0 and which completes one complete rotation in precisely 24 seconds<\/strong>; or as the Double Tourbillon 30\u00b0<\/strong> or the Quadruple Tourbillon<\/strong>. The mechanical significance of this strange regulating organ is now famous \u2013 it improves running precision by counteracting the effects of gravity on the movement, etc., etc. \u2013 but equally famous is the fact that its buyers acquire it probably more for the aesthetic contemplation of this hypnotic exercise in absolute horological savoir-faire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Greubel<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

VARIATION ON THE THEME \u201cSPORTS WATCH\u201d, ACCORDING YO GREUBEL FORSEY\u2019S STANDARDS<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Compared to the original titanium\u00a0GMT Sport with blue details<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 now sold out, and which stunned the watchmaking world two years ago with its never-seen-before\u00a0curved and ovoidal case shapes<\/strong>\u00a0that we wrote about here<\/a> \u2013\u00a0the new version is embellished with red gold on the case and globe, titanium remaining only on the caseband, crown, pushers and on the deployant clasp<\/strong>, for a truly powerful aesthetic combination that will inevitably make the\u00a011 pieces\u00a0<\/strong>of this new limited edition highly sought after.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Greubel<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n