SpotlightBremont Launch Their First-Ever Tourbillon Watch: The Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon

During Watches and Wonders 2024—Bremont’s first time at the fair—the brand announced a complete overhaul of its branding and marketing, adding new products and collections. This rebranding includes the debut of the Terra Nova collection, now also featuring a black DLC-treated tourbillon timepiece capable of displaying two time zones simultaneously. This is the new Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon timepiece.

The Terra Nova Collection And The Dual-Time Zone Tourbillon

Before we get ahead of ourselves, the watch is just limited to 30 pieces. This may even be Bremont’s way of testing the waters before they hit us with a non-limited-edition Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon. You can’t blame them, going through a rebranding as vast and detailed as theirs comes with a fair bit of going slow in unchartered territory. In this case, 30 lucky people will be a part of this exclusive group.

The Terra Nova collection, released during Watches and Wonders 2024, showed off Bremont’s rebranding in all its might. A bold new typography, logo, cushion-shaped case, and large, full-block Super-LumiNova numerals are available in four versions.

Those versions, according to the brand, were ‘designed for challenging conditions and to resonate with explorers, adventurers, and the military alike’. The Terra Nova Dual-Time Zone Tourbillon has been described by the brand as, ‘a work of art designed to be worn and admired’.

The Terra Nova Dual-Time Zone Tourbillon has been described by the brand as, ‘a work of art designed to be worn and admired’

The tourbillon itself is visible at six o’clock, with a blue propeller design applied to the escapement bridge, celebrating the brand’s passion for aviation

The tourbillon, with the blue propeller design applied on the escapement bridge gives a neat twist to the tourbillon cage

Though the Tourbillon may take centre stage, what is equally, if not more fascinating is the GMT dual-time globe at 12 o’clock

It’s an extremely interesting way of displaying a dual time zone, with even a day/night-indicating 24-hour scale encircling the globe

The tourbillon calibre 9130 gives the timepiece a power reserve of up to 100 hours

The tourbillon, visible at six o'clock, along with the dual-time zone GMT visible at twelve o'clock, gives this Bremont watch an appearance that we're not used to from the brand

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Design Details Of The Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon

There are plenty of differences between this timepiece and its predecessors. For starters, it has a satin and polished black DLC titanium 42.5mm case—water-resistant to 100m—with a matching push-in crown. Interestingly, it doesn’t include the new Bremont logo, at least on the dial.

The Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon itself is visible at six o’clock, with a blue propeller design applied to the escapement bridge, celebrating the brand’s passion for aviation. This is a neat—albeit unnecessary—detail sets apart the tourbillon. But then again, tourbillons themselves aren’t really necessary anymore. (They were made to counteract the effects of gravity way back when pocket watches needed them.)

The dial is a spectacle, with three-dimensional anthracite radial guilloche work with white Super-LumiNova-applied indexes. Despite being a ‘work of art’, it’s nice to see that the brand have stuck to the large indexes that make the Terra Nova collection what it is.

Though the Tourbillon may take centre stage, what is equally, if not more fascinating is the GMT dual-time globe at 12 o’clock. It’s an extremely interesting way of displaying a dual time zone, with even a day/night-indicating 24-hour scale encircling the globe.

The Terra Nova Dual-Time Tourbillon’s Hand-Assembled Movement

The watch obviously uses a movement that is different from that of the other Terra Nova watches. This tourbillon calibre 9130 has been developed in collaboration with French and Swiss-based watchmaker, Olivier Mory, using his tourbillon module to create a complication dedicated to travel (hence, the GMT). The tourbillon has been intricately hand-assembled by the brand’s team of watchmakers at ‘The Wing’ (Bremont’s headquarters) in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. Equipped with a free-sprung balance wheel, the manual-winding movement can store a significant power reserve of up to 100 hours, while offering accuracy of -3/+7 seconds per day.

With this watch, it seems as though the brand are trying to dip a toe into the cold waters and test how the audience might react to a tourbillon edition of the Terra Nova. There’s no reason why a brand such as Bremont, who thrive off its military connect, should focus on a tourbillon watch, but they’ve done an admirable job with this first attempt at the complication, as was to be expected. Ironically enough, what sells the watch, at least to us, is the intricate GMT display at twelve. This version, especially since it’s limited to 30 pieces, may not have a very significant part to play in Bremont’s new positioning, but even if it’s a capsule release, it’s quite likely a harbinger of what’s to come from the brand.