JLC could have gone more modern with the design of the movements but I feel as though they kept it classic because this watch is part of the Reverso collection's 80th anniversary. The decor of the movements is done in a nice, traditional manner. The movement is hand assembled and decorated, and it looks pretty darn nice at that.īoth movements are presented via open face dials for you to view with the blued steel hour and minute hands generally seen in the Reverso range. It sounds as though JLC considers them one movement and together they are called the Jaeger-LeCoultre Caliber 944. There is one crown to control them both and they are manually wound. The images here show you each of them and how they fit together. What Jaeger-LeCoultre did in the the 'Reverso Curtain' is literally take two relatively thin movements and place them back to back. The curtain also activates the minute repeater complication. Using your finger, you push the curtain aside to reveal one of the two watch dials. Furthermore, we also have very specialized types, such as the dumb repeater which vibrates instead of producing an audible sound-quite useful for people who are hearing- or sight-impaired.Being a Reverso the watch has two dials, one of which is covered with a sliding metal curtain.
#MINUTE REPEATER WATCH FULL#
Push the lever at 2:40, however, and there’ll be an additional high tone since more than half a quarter has passed since the last full quarter.Ī lot simpler to figure out are the five-minute repeaters and decimal or ten-minute repeaters, which chime to indicate the hour and how many five or ten minute sections have passed. Taking our example of 2:36, a watch with a half quarter repeater would give two low tones, two high-low combos to indicate two full quarters and then stop. There would be low tones to indicate the hour, a high-low combo for the quarter hours and then a high tone to indicate whether a half quarter has passed since the last full quarter. Things get a bit more complicated with the half quarter repeater that can sound the time down to half quarters of an hour (which is seven minutes and 30 seconds, to be precise). Other members of this “family” include hour repeaters that would give you just the hour (so, 2:00 and 2:36 would sound just the same), followed by quarter repeaters that indicate the hour and completed quarter hours (2:30 and 2:36 would give you a “dong, dong, ding, ding” or alternatively “dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong”). Minute repeaters are perhaps the most common type of repeater you’ll come across in the world of modern haute horlogerie. At 2:36, for example, the watch would produce two low tones for the hour, two high-low sequences for the two quarter hours and finally six high tones for the remaining six minutes (“dong, dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding”).
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When the lever is pushed, it triggers a complex mechanism that, in turn, produces a series of tones based on the time.Ī typical minute repeater uses three different tones to tell the time: Low (usually verbalized “dong”) for hours, high (“ding”) for minutes and a high-low sequence (“ding-dong”) for quarter hours. So, what does a minute repeater actually do? Well, a watch with a minute repeater usually comes with an extra button or lever. How the repeater lever of the Bulgari L’Ammiraglio del Tempo is operated But there’s something inherently appealing to the idea that you can push a button on your watch and have it tell you the time in a series of melodious chimes. No, we don’t necessarily need them the same way we don’t technically need complications such as tourbillons and perpetual calendars. The same principle applies to minute repeater watches-so named because they literally repeat the hours and minutes to you. They come with three different chimes the hours have a low chime, minute by a high chime, and quarter hours by a sequence of two chimes. Obviously, we no longer need chiming clocks in this day and age, but it’s still nice to, say, hear an old grandfather clock strike twelve from somewhere deep in the house as you drift off to sleep. A minute repeater pocket watch comes with a repeater that chimes the time by pushing a button.
The Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMTįrom simple cuckoo clocks at home to iconic clock towers like London’s Big Ben, there’s a timeless charm to timepieces that sound the hours with bells, gongs or the call of a bird. The repeater button on Panerai’s first minute repeater, All watches show the time, but a minute-repeater will tell you the hours and minutes through chimes and melodic tunes
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