Thanks for this (as you can see I’m catching up with these columns). I decided a while ago that (1) I would never buy a wristwatch minute repeated, and (2) even the pocket watch minute repeaters were more than I wanted to spend, so I settled on a pocket watch quarter repeater. It brings me great joy and I try to keep it wound so that I can have the time to the “most recent” 1/4 hour. It makes noises, the noises are different and the noises are algorithmically related to the time. Anyway, do you have any information about how much easier it is to do a quarter repeater? I figure there must be at least one part that is about 15 times simpler in the quarter repeater than in the minute repeater!
Thanks for this (as you can see I’m catching up with these columns). I decided a while ago that (1) I would never buy a wristwatch minute repeated, and (2) even the pocket watch minute repeaters were more than I wanted to spend, so I settled on a pocket watch quarter repeater. It brings me great joy and I try to keep it wound so that I can have the time to the “most recent” 1/4 hour. It makes noises, the noises are different and the noises are algorithmically related to the time. Anyway, do you have any information about how much easier it is to do a quarter repeater? I figure there must be at least one part that is about 15 times simpler in the quarter repeater than in the minute repeater!