As is traditional, the first is the lowest and identifies the hour, while the last and highest indicates individual minutes. The choice of three gongs, instead of the traditional two, enables three different sounds to be combined, so that the carillon can play a melody, like that of a bell. The chiming, activated by a push-piece at 8 o’clock, is carried out by three gongs. This movement has a tourbillon escapement, whose cage rotates on an axis at right angles to the axis of the balance wheel, and which makes two rotations per minute: this rotation ensures greater accuracy, providing the best compensation for the irregular rate caused by the effect of the force of gravity. Thanks to the sapphire crystals placed on both the front and the back of the case, the new P.2005/MR calibre, completely developed by the Panerai Manufacture in Neuchâtel and finely skeletonised, can be admired. One of the most remarkable features of this high-end timepiece is the possibility of selecting the time to be chimed by choosing between home time and local time.
The creation of a minute repeater watch which chimes ten-minute periods instead of fifteen-minute ones, as is usually the case, allows Panerai to distinguish itself by simplifying and making more immediate the calculation of time. These various indications are obtained by means of three hammers striking three different notes, whose combination generates a particularly harmonious sound, similar to the ringing of a bell. Innovative, fascinating and highly complicated, the Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT Oro Rosso represents an important goal reached by Panerai which is launching an entirely mechanical system of great complexity which chimes the hours, ten-minute periods and minutes on demand. RADIOMIR 1940 MINUTE REPEATER CARILLON TOURBILLON GMT This ancient tradition is invoked again today by the special tones of the chimes of this exceptional new Special Edition created by the Panerai Haute Horlogerie Manufacture in Neuchâtel. On sailing ships in particular, the striking of a bell played an essential part for the life on board: it served to rouse the crew in the morning, to summon the sailors for meals and to indicate the end of each day.īut it was also used to warn of danger, to convene an assembly or to indicate the presence of the ship to others when visibility was restricted by fog. In all cultures there are ancient customs where the passing of time is marked by the sounds of bells or other instruments, and the complication embodying the heritage of these fascinating traditions in haute horlogerie is the hour and minute repeater mechanism, which causes the watch to chime by simply pressing on a push-piece.įor the creation of the new Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT, Panerai has sought inspiration from its own history – for over a century indissolubly linked to the world of the sea – and from the marine tradition of marking the passage of time by a ship’s bell.
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In this case, it has done so not only thanks to the design which evokes immediately the history of the brand, but also thanks to the crystal clarity of a carillon which evokes, for those who know how to dream, journeys into space and time, even on board a wonderful vintage yacht on which a ship’s bell sounds. The intermediate stroke of the ten minutes and the possibility of choosing whether to activate – with a simple gesture – the sounding of the local time or of a second time zone make the function more current and contemporary.Ībove all, Panerai never gives up on arousing emotion to keep alive the passion of its fond collectors. Listening to the time is made more immediate by the presence of three gongs which give life to the harmonious sequence of the carillon. The new Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT is no exception. The minute repeater mechanism is one of the most noble complications of high quality watchmaking, fascinating for its unique characteristic of making use of sounds to convey the time.