Tortue Minute Repeater 2512C — White Gold

Identifying details

• Minute repeaterMinute repeaterA mechanism that sounds the time on demand, chiming the hours, completed quarter-hours and minutes elapsed since the last quarter. In a conventional two-gong arrangement, hours sound low, quarters use paired high-low tones and remaining minutes sound high. The action is requested by the wearer rather than triggered automatically at each quarter-hour.

  Chimes the hours, quarters and minutes on demand.

• Secret signature

  “Cartier” hidden in a stroke of one of the Roman numerals.

• GuillochéGuillochéDecorative patterns engraved into a surface with an engine-turning machine. Similar-looking patterns do not by themselves establish how a dial was made. dial

  Engine-turned () dial or dial centre.