Tourbillon in spaceflight... April 2022

2022 Jacob & Co. Astronomia Bucherer Blue on ISS - International Space Station
April 2022, we already knew about the Omega Speedmaster 50th anniversary Silver Snoopy being worn by Axiom-1 astronaut Eytan Stibbe during 17 days onboard the ISS but it looks like he also carried a larger special iteration of Jacob & Co's "Astronomia" tourbillon watch in his personal kit!
(Photos: Jacob & Co's)


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A "first" is a "first" ... we'll even see a plastic... euh bio-ceramic moonSwatch onboard a spacecraft soon... ☕

Momma always said Jacob & Co. goes together with space like peas and carrots.

https://www.fratellowatches.com/dream-about-a-tourbillon-watch/
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Quote "The ingenious mechanism stems from the genius mind of master watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet" End Quote.
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With the remembrance of John Arnold's passing upon us, August 11, 1799 I'm amazed his name was not even mentioned!
The Tourbillon concept was an English invention in 1790 by John Arnold (1736-1799), who had good contacts with French-Swiss Abraham-Louis Bréguet.
Arnold's son, John Roger Arnold (1769-1843) was even schooled by Bréguet and both watchmakers visited each other. By 1795, Breguet achieved a practical Tourbillon mechanism and by 1801 Bréguet had patented the single axis Tourbillon.
In 1808, Bréguet incorporated a Tourbillon into an Arnold designed pocket chronometer which was inscribed in honor of his friend John Arnold!
The double axis Tourbillon had to wait till 1977, patented by Anthony Randall. In this way, Bréguet acknowledged Arnold as the inventor by presenting his first tourbillon in 1808 to Arnold's son John Roger.
I guess some very basic research should have pointed the author to this historic horology information on the Tourbillon...