What is it?
Minute Repeater is a kind of watch which can tell the time by sound. If you turn Minute Repeater's butt, you will hear the ding-dong from it. Prior to the invention of the electricity , specially at dank, it was very useful to "hear" the time from a watch. That is the reason why Minute Repeater can become so famous and precious.
History
It also has a long history, at 1676, Edward Barlow, the English watchmaker had found the organization which named Giving Hour. Then reached to the twentieth century, Ten-minute repeater, Half-quarter repeater and Five-minute repeater had appeared and the accuracy also made a big program. nowadays, Minute Repeater can tell us "hour", "quarter" and "minute" whenever we want. Its highly developed and complex not only became an achievement, but also reached a position beyond price.
The soul - tone
Though working on mechanical principle is not easy, tone is the most decisive of Minute Repeater. If you are a person who know to appreciate the watch, please remember ,"Time needs to be listened" . Time flies, but we can listen and feel the meaning of it. I think the sound must be very thrilling, and that is the meaning of Minute Repeater. So the price of a Minute Repeater with beautiful sound shoud propably reach to a million.
Gerald Genta
It was made in Switzerland, 950 parts, each one of the parts needed about 320 hours to finished.
Vacheron Constantin
All parts were made by hand, 700 parts.
IWC
It was the first watch with a built-in permanen calendar which can tell the different the Southern to the Northren Hemisphere and show that the deviation just may appear after 57,700 years. It was made in Portugal.
Master
It stands "On the continual pursuit of beauty" , global issued in a limited edition. 750 parts.
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