Mechanism indicating time by acoustic sounds. Contrary to the watches provided with en-passant sonnerie devices that strike the number of hours automatically, repeaters work on demand by actuating a slide or pusher positioned on the case side. Repeaters typically have two hammers and two gongs, one for minutes and one for hours. Quarters are indicated by the simultaneous strike of both hammers.
A watch which can additionally "repeat" the time, at the push of a button or move of a small slide on the side of the case, by striking the hours, quarter hours and minutes since the last quarter hour on small gongs inside the watch. See also "Repeater."
Repeating watch that sounds hours, quarters and minutes.
a special complication found on a few very high end mechanical watches and some more affordable quartz watches. On the major quarters of the hour, or when activated by the wearer, the watch chimes the current time. The minute-repeater chiming pattern uses a mid-note for each hour, followed by a high-mid note pair for each quarter hour, and if chiming a time between the quarters, adds a high-note for each minute past the quarter hour. So a time like 2:22 would chime as: "dong, dong, ding-dong, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding."
A watch that strikes or sounds the hours, quarter hours and/or minutes on demand by moving a slide.
A timepiece that sounds hours, quarters and minutes as requested.
a quite complex and sophisticated device that makes chimes for different intervals of time, such as an hour, quarter-hour, or a minute. This device was invented a long time ago to let people know the time during night hours. This device is still being produced by high-end watch manufacturers for the luxury purposes to commemorate the invention of the minute repeater. This device doesn't carry a real significance today since the invention of various luminous or tritium coatings being applied to the hour markers and hands.
A striking mechanism with hammers and gongs for acoustically signalling the hours, quarter hours, and minutes elapsed since noon or midnight.
A Complication on a watch that can strike the time in hours, quarters, or seconds by means of a push piece.
A timepiece that can be made to strike the time in hours, quarters and minutes, by means of a push-piece or slide, usually in the side of the case.
The minute repeater is a complication found in a mechanical watch, in which the time is struck to the nearest minute. For instance the time 3:17 would be conveyed by the following sequence of audible tones: "dong, dong, dong, ding-dong, ding, ding". Here "dong" corresponds to 1 hour, "ding-dong" corresponds to 15 minutes, and "ding" corresponds to 1 minute.
