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Rob Holmes is a private investigator. He works with major luxury-watch brands to track down fakes and stop them from getting to market.
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A tourbillon (French for "whirlwind") is a centuries-old mechanism built inside some of the world's most expensive watches. It was originally designed to improve the accuracy of pocket watches by rotating the escapement and balance wheel to help counter the effects of gravity.
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