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Alfred Helwig
German watchmaker and technical writer, and in addition the inventor of the “flying tourbillon”
Alfred Helwig was born 1886 in Goldbach/Lower Lusatia on 5 July. From 1900, he carried out a watchmaker training in Sorau at the master watchmaker Dunkel, before he visited the German Watchmaker School Glashütte from 1904 to 1905.
He specialized in the precision adjustment and the tourbillons. In the twenties, he developed a flying tourbillon, which was also manufactured by several of his master students under his direction …
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