Vintage minute repeaters 6448 — White gold, baton indexes

Identifying details

• Unique piece

  Documented as the only example made (e.g. marked “1/1”).

• 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.