Chopard

I was in New York city this past weekend, and stopped in the Chopard Boutique as I was passing by.  It is much larger and nicer than the old one, and dead empty due to the nasty weather.  I looked around, and sitting right there, in the case, was a Strike One!  I asked to see it, and adjusted the time so it would pass an hour.....and it was silent.  I pressed the button to turn chiming on....nothing.  I asked the clerk, who had some knowledge of the watch, and she couldn't get the chiming to activate either.  In short, I was able to play with a broken Strike One, right before it went across Madison Ave to be serviced, as it was apparently damaged while on display
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Apologies for the lousy video quality (and the strange background noise comes from the camera). The Sound Level Meter is peaking at 66dB, so not loud but distinctive!

Apologies but I could not work out how to post video directly, but I did post it on YouTube - hope this works (apologies if I am breaking any rules, lots of other great sonneries out on YouTube by the way)

Good idea to have a Sound Level Meter around.
Now, why are you having a sound-level meter?

What's the read-out?

Have you any reference with other repeaters?

Kong

The meter is very helpful for setting up your home theater ... everyone should have one ;-)

Seriously it provides an absolute check on how loud these things are. The scale in this question is centered on 70dB and the peaks are 4dB down i.e. 66dB.

In practice the tone is so distinct that you hear it in even quite noisy settings such as a car at 100kph.

I've not heard other sonneries but I would also be conscious that you can make them sound louder or quieter based on the surface they are placed on, a wood surface is quite good being n ot too sound absorbent, wheras paper (or flesh) is quite the opposite