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Recent Examples of tourbillionWhen Rexhepi started making watches under his Akrivia label in 2012, his first timepiece, the AK-01, was a tourbillon monopusher chronograph based on an ebauche movement.—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2026 The tourbillon version encases an appealing tension between the 270-piece complication’s visceral architecture and Roth’s flair for aristocratic typefaces and theatrical curves.—Adam Erace, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026 There were innovations such as Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak RD#5, with its thin case, tourbillon and ultra-easy chronograph pushers, plus Breguet’s magnetic escapement in its avant-garde Expérimentale 1.—Chris Rovzar, Bloomberg, 29 Dec. 2025
Rescuers ended up using ropes and a piece of equipment called the Arizona vortex, which was invented in northern Arizona.
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Holly Williams,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
Sections of the granite supports of the Keck statue are cannily manipulated and embellished with stars and swirling vortex-forms in Lithichrome paint into works of art themselves.
Two boys tussling over a bladder in a three-foot-high canvas painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in the late 1760s snarl up in a whirlpool of pain, each twisting the other’s right ear.
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Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
The whirlpool hot tub came in handy a few times, after snorkeling in unusually cold waters.