repeater question

[vandd]

how do you tell the difference of a minuete 5min or quarter hour repeaters apart, meaning if you bought a scrap repeater how do you tell which one it is?

[Jon Hanson]

activate it

[Tom McIntyre]

If the watch is not working, you need to look under the dial at the repeating works. The minute repeater will have a minute rack with 16 teeth plus the quarter rack. The 5 minute will have a single 12 tooth rack. The half quarter is difficult to tell from the quarter by looking. It has a stop piece that comes into play at the 7 1/2 minute mark but otherwise looks like a quarter repeater. You probably will not see one of those anyway.

There is also a 1/3 quarter repeater that is rather rare. It strikes quarters ting tang and then 1 or 2 blows on the high note to indicate 5 or 10 minutes past the quarter. Functionally it is a 5 minute repeater, but much cooler. :cool:

I forgot to mention that they all have a 13 tooth hour rack to strike the hours.

[Jon Hanson]

do not suggest to a non watch man to remove a dial and risk dial damage or hand loss

:mad:

[vandd]

thanks much i beleive this to be a 5 min repeater, now comes the point if i want to get it repaird or not. i will post some pics of it soon, it was in a lot of watches i bought from the uk. but to jon, i am a newly watch person only being 21, this is now my second repeater and the first works and i have already tooked off the dial and have tooked it out of the case too. learning every little bite as i go. so here are the pics
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/45114/repeater1a001.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/45114/repeater1a002.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/45114/repeater1a003.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/45114/repeater1a004.jpg

[Tom McIntyre]

do not suggest to a non watch man to remove a dial and risk dial damage or hand loss

:mad:
Jon,

He already said it was scrap. Now if we can just persuade him to use the attachments instead of those huge pictures. :o

[vandd]

how do you do that, i am still somewhat new to forums and dont know all the tricks yet....

[beta21]

First, there are pieces from at least two differentrepeater mvt's on your pictures. Secondly, the partly assembled mvt shown seems to be a quarter repeater. By far the most common type.

[Tom McIntyre]

how do you do that, i am still somewhat new to forums and dont know all the tricks yet....
Click on the paperclip icon above your editing area when making a post and follow the directions. You can copy pictures either from your computer or from your picture hosting site.

There is a lot of discussion about this in the Practicing and Learning Forum.