Hommage
You hear it before you see it — gongs tuned to concert pitch. 550 components. The first minute repeater made in-house in Germany for a wristwatch.
You hear it before you see it. Three hammers strike tuned gongs inside the case — hours, quarter-hours, minutes — and the sound was developed with the Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau (IfM) at TU Dresden because striking through platinum is one of the hardest acoustic problems in watchmaking. Over 550 components. Caliber 800, hand-wound, built on the architecture of the Cal. 617. Gold-plated 3/4 plate. Gear train fully mirror-polished. The very first project in the new Glashütte manufactory — unveiled the day the workshop opened, May 12, 2011. 25 pieces total: 20 in rose gold, 5 in platinum. The first minute repeater ever developed in-house in Germany for a wristwatch.
Unveiled the day the Glashütte workshop opened, May 12, 2011.
In Context
Caliber
Caliber 800
The Minute Repeater
Caliber 800
The Minute Repeater
The first minute repeater developed in-house in Germany for a wristwatch. Over 550 components. Sound geometry developed with the Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau at TU Dresden — the gongs are tuned to concert pitch A to compensate for the density of platinum.
Minute Repeater
Ref. 6800-02
€192,500 (DE RRP) €€€
Minute Repeater
Ref. 6800-01
€192,500 (DE RRP) €€€
Stories
The Hommage: 550 Components, One Day in May
· May 2011Cal. 800: over 550 components, 42 jewels, hand-wound minute repeater with column-wheel striking mechanism. Gong geometry developed with the Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau (IfM) at TU Dresden. Twenty-five pieces total — twenty in rose gold, five in platinum. The first wrist minute repeater developed in-house in German watchmaking history.
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· 2011Three years of development by Rolf Lang's team. Sound geometry with the TU Dresden Institute for Musical Instrument Construction. Hours tuned to concert pitch A (440 Hz), minutes to high C (264 Hz). Tone springs on the case — not the movement — for fuller projection. Over 550 components. The first minute repeater fully developed and constructed in Glashütte.
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Tutima Returns to Glashütte
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Generation Glashütte
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“The noise that comes out is incredibly crisp, very sharp and extremely melodic.”