Top 5 Watchmaking Complications

Piaget-Emperador-Coussin-Ultra-Thin-Minute-Repeater-Watch-movement An inner ring is inserted for a Minute Repeater, as the gong strikes this, it resounds. (Photo from Piaget.)

3- Minute Repeater. A watch that chimes the time by striking the hours, quarter hours and minutes and is activated by a slide or pushpiece. Hammers strike one or several gongs. The sister complexities of this watch are sonnerie and other striking or musical watches.

Rattrapante movements are very complex.

4- Split-Second Chronograph or Rattrapante. A split seconds chronograph, rattrapante, or double chrono offers the capacity to record and display two separate events and allows the two time intervals to be compared. Essentially, the watch has two seconds hands. With the first push of a button, both hands start together; the push on the split-second pusher stops one hand in place, while the other separates from it and continues to time the other event and one can read the intermediate time while the other chronograph continues to progress. A second press will make the stopped hand catch up with the moving hand.

JLC Master_Ultra_Thin_pg From side view, ultra-thin watches can look as slim as a half dollar. (Photo from Jaeger-LeCoultre.)

5- Ultra-Thins. The ultra-slim or flat timepiece is a true work of art. Making a large movement is easy, but when one has to build hundreds of mechanical parts and get them to work inside spaces that are so thin that, when cased, the profile of the watch is less than 6mm mere in height, it is an amazing work of art and craftsmanship. Hence, it falls into the watchmaking world’s complicated feat category, and the race is on the mechanical watchmaking world to continue to break records for ultra-thin watches.
Then there are a series of other complications that also can come into play, such as chronographs (watches that measure time intervals with a start and stop button and don’t interfere with time indication), power reserve indicators (that provide the wearer with information as the remaining energy in the mainspring), moonphase indicators (that show the phases of the moon), world timers (that tell time in multiple zones), and more.mehr sehen fake uhr und tag heuer mikrogirder