Sentence examples for minute repeater from inspiring English sources
noun
A device, in a watch, in which the current time is announced by means of a combination of sounds that represent the hour, quarter hour, and minute; usually activated by a button
"So we're bringing out the first full-carbon minute repeater.
It has now been given a contemporary interpretation with the Parmigiani Toric Minute Repeater.
MINUTE REPEATER -- A device that chimes a different note for each hour, quarter-hour and minute.
François-Paul Journe, for example, will introduce "an exceptional ultraslim minute repeater" in Geneva on Monday.
The minute repeater mechanism can be seen through the sapphire crystal covering the back of the watch.
And it features a first-of-its-kind combination of complications: a minute repeater, calendar and retrograde date.
A Longines minute repeater lever pocket watch estimated 2,500 to 3,500 francs sold for 10,625 francs at Christie's in Geneva in November.
Inspired by the Perrin Frères pocket watch, the Parmigiani Toric Minute Repeater wristwatch reprises the special display function, with a new movement made entirely by the Parmigiani manufacture.
At the Salon Belles Montres in Paris this weekend, the Geneva watchmaker F.P. Journe is presenting its Répétition Souveraine Mécanique, with an ultraflat — at four millimeters — minute repeater.
"One was La Clef du Temps, sold at the Only Watch auction, and the other, the Bel Canto minute repeater tourbillon, signed by Ranieri Illicher".
His latest creation, the Orizuru watch presented at this year's BaselWorld fair, features a minute repeater complication and a unique automaton inspired by the traditional art of origami.
