Music to Collectors’ Ears: Introducing the Breguet Classique Répétition Minutes 7673 in Rose Gold
A first-class high horology complication rarely reveals its secrets and sophistication at first glance, as even the trained eye doesn’t immediately grasp the complexity of the underlying mechanical processes. This rings especially true for the minute repeater, which symbolizes minimalist appearance at its finest. However, from a technical standpoint, this grand complication is deemed extremely demanding, for it doesn’t merely indicate time but adds an acoustic dimension, chiming the hours, quarters, and minutes when desired.
Repeater watches captivate not only due to their virtuoso mechanics, comprising over 100 tiny components with incredibly precise tolerances, but also hold cultural significance. Since the early Middle Ages, the tolling of bells from imposing church towers conveyed authoritative time signals, summoning not just to mass but also structuring people’s workdays ? from the morning Lauds to the midday Angelus chime and the evening Vespers. The endeavor to replicate this powerful mechanism within the confined dimensions of a pocket watch case was achieved by skilled watchmakers in the late 17th century. While the initial examples were “silent” watches with case-mounted hour striking that one “felt” to tell time, later models featured small bells. Towards the end of the 18th century, the ingenious Abraham-Louis Breguet developed a mechanism striking a spring blade instead of the bell-type gong used until then. Tod...
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