Brief Introduction To Repeater Watches-Luxury Watches

Most people know little about repeater watches. Some people even have not heard about this kind of watch. This is nothing strange. Minute repeating is one of the functions of a mechanical watch. Simply put, a repeater watch is a watch that tells people what time it is by the sound of it. When it is winded by people, it tells people time by the repeating of "Di-Da, Di-Da" or something like that. Perhaps the quantities of repeater watches are the fewest in the watch market. This is one of the reasons why this kind of watch is so expensive and valuable.


Repeater watches today are developed from the old repeater watches ever since 1676 when Edward Barlow invented the first repeater watch in the world. Then Daniel Quare, another English watch manufacturer as Edward Barlow enhanced the function of such a watch in the 17th century. He created a repeater watch that told time by quarters. This kind of watch gained popularity at that time. The quantities of such kind of watch became more with more people knew what it was.

Then in the 18th century, a kind of watch that told people by quarter and hour was created. This kind of repeater watch was the main character at that time. People liked these watches because they can know the time even in dark night.

It was not until the 20th century when different kinds of repeater watches come into being. The Ten-minute repeater watch, Half-quarter repeater watch and the Five-minute repeater watch are the main watches of repeater watches since then.

Now, there are more and more repeater watches that tell people more accurate time. Minute repeater watches are the most popular watches. It is said that only those who know watches and love watches know how to appreciate a repeater watch, especially a minute repeater watch. Minute repeater watches are valuable watches all the time. Those top watch brands in the world like to create minute repeater watches in order to show how experienced they are in watch making in order to gained more reputation.

Brief Introduction To Repeater Watches

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