Caliber R 27 PS QR
Self-winding with Minute Repeater
Description
Self-winding with Minute Repeater.
This caliber is distinguished by a chime of exceptional sound quality. It took Patek Philippe extensive research efforts in metallurgy and acoustics to achieve a sound of such perfection and unrivalled purity. On demand, the minute repeater will strike the hours, the quarter-hours, and the minutes which have elapsed since the last quarter hour. One hammer strikes the number of hours on a low-pitched gong. Then, two hammers consecutively strike the number of quarter-hours on the low-pitched gong nd the high-pitched gong. Finally, the second hammer strikes the high-pitched gong for a count of the number of minutes that have elapsed since the last quarter hour. It takes the largest number of strikes – 32 in total – to indicate the time at 12:59. Twelve low-pitched strikes, three high-low double strikes, and 14 high strikes.
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