The Master Minute Repeater 2008 is well-known for its melodic gong which till now is still a trade secret as how they achieve this innovation. It uses crystal gong that is able to produce sound waves with very fast speed that makes the vibrations full and intense.
The watch is made of pink gold with 44mm diameter. It has a skeletal dial with anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Its caseback is transparent through a sapphire crystal. It runs on a manual winging mechanical movement that is the only one with a 15-day power reserve.
It uses 413 components within its movement that is largely ruthenium plated. It also has many beautiful decoration within the movement including rectilinear and circular polishing, drawing, sunburst, snailing, chamfering, polishing and engraving. The nickel-silver plate has cotes soleillees decorations too. Its frequency is at 21,600 vibrations per hour.
Its functions are the hour, minute, seconds, 15-day power reserve, minute repeater, and its barrel torque indicator. Water resistance is up to 50m. It has rose gold plated numerals and hour markers. The hands are in baton shape. It uses alligator leather straps with double folding buckle of 20mm. There are only 175 watches produced in this series.
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