However, the watch did not become a commercial piece until several years later. In
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ription system of purchasing a watch, in link which link subscribers pay for watches in advance and receive them as they are completed. The first Tourbillon Souverain watches consisted of just twenty pieces, of which the one being offered at Phillips is the fourteenth.
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