• Girard Perregaux Tip of the Week #79
• Girard Perregaux Tip of the Week #79
• Girard Perregaux Tip of the Week #79
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A Minute Repeater is an acoustical masterpiece and one of the most significant complications in the history of watchmaking. A minute repeater watch contains a tremendously complex mechanism whose intricate workings translate the time into a series of carefully tuned strikes, which signal the current time of day at any moment that the repeater mechanism is activated. Once initiated, the Minute Repeater peals the hour, quarter hour and individual minute, each interval distinguished by its own unique pitch or combination of pitches. Click here to hear a minute repeater chime. |