Minute Repeater Pocket Watch - After Restoration - Instructions for Owner

roadwarrior

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Nov 13, 2020

Richard Perrett Watchmaker

This Minute Repeater Pocket watch, made in Switzerland by famous Watchmaker Henry Capt, is by far the most complicated watch I have ever worked on. Originally intended just for the owner of this watch, the patient and discerning John Hawley of California, it struck me that this off the cuff piece might have quite a long of appeal and general interest. I have quite a lot of footage of the work I did to restore this watch and when I get the time for its editing I will follow this up with a more detailed look at this watch.

There is not a lot of detailed information on Minute Repeaters and I think this is because the guys that work on these beautiful pieces are scarce and the set of those that do this and also make videos is probably very very small.


I have made two more videos about this watch and as explained above another s in the pipeline. The existing videos are ....


 
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