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2. Repeater (horology) - Wikipedia

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   Modern sonnerie watches merge both types of sonnerie, making grand and petite sonnerie selectable modes that the user can choose between, as well as having an optional minute or quarter repeater. These watches will either have a distinctive double barrel setup, one wound by turning the clock clockwise, the other counter clockwise, or will use a ...

3. List of most expensive watches sold at auction - Wikipedia

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   Finally, any auctioned watch without public online records from auctioneers (e.g. major auction houses) will not be included in the ranking. As of December 2022, the most expensive watch (and wristwatch) ever sold at auction is the Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 6300A-010, fetching US$31.19 million (31,000,000 CHF) in Geneva on 9 ...

4. Patek Philippe - Wikipedia

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   [120] [121] Ref. 6300 also has 20 complications, including grande sonnerie, minute repeater, and alarm with time strike (but without tourbillon), with the sale price over 2.2 million US dollars. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] The purchase of each piece requires an application from the buyer and has to be approved by Patek Philippe President Thierry Stern.

5. F. P. Journe - Wikipedia

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   F. P. Journe (legally Montres Journe SA) is a Swiss luxury watch manufacture d'horlogerie founded in 1999 by François-Paul Journe. [1] The only three-time winner of the Aiguille d'Or grand prize from the Fondation du Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, [2] Journe focuses on complex precision chronometers [3] with a production of around 800 watches per year.

6. Philippe Dufour - Wikipedia

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   Philippe Dufour, AHCI (born 1948) is a Swiss-born watchmaker from Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux. [1] He is regarded as a master of modern watchmaking, and his watches are referred as among the best ever made.

7. Sonnerie - Wikipedia

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   Sonnerie watches are revered by connoisseurs for chiming the time on tiny gongs on the hour and the quarter "in passing", and require highly skilled watchmakers as they "cannot be made satisfactorily through purely industrial means." [1] When "Sonnerie" is used as the name of a musical composition, it bears connotations of:

8. Complication (horology) - Wikipedia

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   A grand(e) complication is a watch with several complications, the most complex achievements of haute horlogerie, or fine watchmaking. Although there is no official definition, [2] one common criterion is that a watch contain at least one (visible) timing complication, one astronomical complication, and one striking complication. [3]

9. Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication - Wikipedia

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   The timepiece is a gold, double-dialled and double-openfaced, minute repeating clockwatch with Westminster chimes, grande and petite sonnerie, split seconds chronograph, registers for 60-minutes and 12-hours, perpetual calendar accurate to the year 2100, moon-phases, equation of time, dual power reserve for striking and going trains, mean and ...