In person, the 56 mm Parrot Repeater pocket watch is every bit as magnificent as described, and when its RMA88, minute-repeater, hand-winding movement springs the timepiece into action, time seems ...

It was in this earlier age that the repeater watch was created so a man could check the time in the dark. In the beginning, repeater pocket watches — which grew from their forebears, chiming clocks — ...

In person, the 56 mm Parrot Repeater pocket watch is every bit as magnificent as described, and when its RMA88, minute-repeater, hand-winding movement springs the timepiece into action, time seems ...

The Watch Museum's inventory includes a wide array of pocket watches, such as Verge Fusee, Pair Cased, Repeater, Chronograph, English Lever, and Breguet models.

IWC Portuguese Minute Repeater For the connoisseur who likes big secrets: The sapphire caseback shows off the pocket-watch movement that gives this 43-millimeter watch its heft, but only the slide ...

The earliest versions of the repeater were rudimentary: a muffled sound inside a pocket watch that only bzzd for the hour—so it would go off nine times whether it was 9:01 or 9:59—or the hour ...

Pocket watches once were a Bovet specialty. During the company’s mid-19th-century heyday, it manufactured elaborate enamel-painted and jeweled pocket watches, often in matched pairs, for the ...

It is a quarter repeater that was thought to be a wedding gift and is estimated to sell for between $30,000 and $50,000. A picture of Eleanor Roosevelt appears on the inside cover of the pocket watch.