It was in 2005 when Patek Philippe created its ?Advanced Research? R&D department by bringing together the most skilled watchmakers. The aim was to introduce more innovative solutions in terms of materials and technologies in watchmaking. Over the last decade and a half, the Swiss watchmaker?s Advanced Research program has spawned 5 mold-breaking timepieces, with the first four watches focusing on bringing in more silicon components into the regulation mechanism. Right at the end of 2021, Patek Philippe has released the sixth chapter of the Advanced Research program. Meet the Patek Philippe Advanced Research reference 5750 ?Fortissimo? (5750P/001), a new automatic minute repeater timepiece that presents a new, louder form of minute repeater chiming mechanism.
Chiming watches have always been a specialty of Patek Philippe and the new ultra-limited-edition timepiece aims at introducing ground-breaking innovation to improve existing minute repeater mechanisms. The complication with minute repeaters is that it?s extremely difficult to achieve good quality sound and high volume. Either a repeater can sound good and be relatively quiet or be loud and lack good tonality. Patek Philippe wants to solve this problem with its latest innovation. According to the Swiss brand, the idea was ?to amplify the volume of the time strike in a purely mechanical manner while preserving the excellent acoustic quality as well as the smallest possible dimensions.?

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