Wow.....a master piece. Very beautiful...
Yep,, these Minute Repeaters are something
Well, I prefer the Manual Wound MR, but the esthetic of this Blancpain is great!
The sober dial is very classy.
Tell us how does it sound?
Best.
Nicolas
How does the minuterepeater works?
Minute repeaters have to be manually activated to sound; sonneries en passant
(en passant=in passing) are a different type of complication that will automatically strike the hours, quarters, and possibly the minutes or half quarters.
These, of course, should be distinguished from alarm watches, that are set to make a sound at a given time, and which use very different striking mechanisms than repeaters and sonneries (though some models from Blancpain, Breguet, and Ulysse Nardin have tried to be exceptions to this last)
Cheers,
TM
thank you thomas
But, i have to see one for myself to really understand it, i dont get it, i must read more about it, what im thinking is that you somehow are activating the repeater, and then it will repeat. But, for hours its will continue stricking until you turn the function off?? Hmmm...
by the way, i really love the alarm/Gmt from blancpain, its an amazing dial, and to hear the sound is just making me smile everytime,
isnt it a wonder you can make a thing like that work automaticly??..
You manually activate the slider on the side of the case to hear the time strike
it only does it the once, you need to activate it again if you want it to strike again. they were initially designed for pocket watches in the days before electricity so that all you had to do was pull the slider to tell time instead on having to light a candle to look at the hands.
your thinking of the much more complicated sonneries that strike the hour or 1/4, 1/2 automatically.
Graham