Case material: Platinum; Charge: Manual; Conditions: New Presentation condition : With dealer guarantee ; Model: Portoghese Ripetizione Price on request Gmtbroker Reference: IW544906 Portugieser Minute Repeater Even for Portuguese mariners, the ship’s bell had transformed the abstract notion of time into something acoustic. In the Portuguese Minute Repeater, depressing the slide causes a strike train to sound the time out audibly in hours, quarters and minutes. With a hunter-style 98950-calibre pocket watch movement and stylistic elements from the Jones calibres. - The Minute Repeater is one of the haute horlogerie's most emotive complications. - Classic simplicity: The     dial with railway track chapter ring and slender feuille hands. - The minute repeater chimes out the time in hours, quarters and minutes whenever required. - See-through sapphire case-back Acoustic Signs of the Time For Portuguese explorers out on the open sea, timekeeping was of crucial importance. Using a log together with a special sandglass – the log glass – they were able to measure the vessel’s speed. The ship’s bell, on the other hand, was used to signal the beginning and end of sailors’ watches: the bell would be struck once every half-hour and twice every full hour, with four double strikes signalling the end of a watch. The abstract concept of time was thus being converted into acoustic signs even back then. In the Portuguese Minute Repeater, depressing the repeating slide causes a delicate strike train to sound the time out audibly in hours, quarters and minut