hexman

Here's a good example. It's basically a watch that can tell time in the dark/for blind people by using hammers that strike against the gongs. First it strikes the hours, then the quarters (three strikes mean 45 minutes, 2 mean 30, etc) and then it strikes the minuts, that you add to the quarters. Its highly complicated and very fine!

I have also never seen a rep/low quality minute repeater watch. You mention that you've seen tourbs but not minute repeater reps, this is because mechanically, the Chinese tourbillions are quite simple mechanically. They use a carriage type tourbillion that due to its robustness compared to fine swiss tourbs, are quite simple to assemble and manufacture. High end tourbs have almost excessive decoration and finesse, most assemblies comprising of 80+ parts weighing less than 3 grams. Minute repeaters on the other hand not only require more parts (which I don't think is too much of an issue for the chinese) but they require superior watchmaking knowledge and rationale to understand how the innards work and how to regulate the whole movement together. Minute repeaters, in my opinion, are the pinnacle of watchmaking complications. A real time, variable, hour, minute, striker.... WOW!!!

Nice one!

Here's a huge lot of them http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...E:IT&ih=017 Don't know if it will be of much use to anyone here as a lot, but there are surely some interesting parts!

Any updates for this? I'd like to purchase a strap for my gen inge. Kind regards

Look at the nice surprise in the skyline! Hope you enjoy!!!

Absolutely stunning work! Congrats, enhoy it in good health!

We'll its really about supply and demand right?. These are limited, eventually they will run out, but the price has been elevated. I don't believe there are any other ones on ebay at the moment!

Here's one of my gen pieces: And this one's gone but here are the photos: And reps: and I cant find the photo of may panny pvd rep so I'll post them afterwards

very nice work!

The 240 is on the sales forum!

Check this out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...E:IT&ih=017 Sorry for this being my first post, but it ends in 5 days and could be of use of course! Also know of a beautiful 240, 6.3mm height with the original hands! I am really amazed at what some of the watches you guys build turn into. Absolutely stunning!!

Hey guys, Im a collector and dealer of vintage watches and parts, and have just found this site! Very interesting are the panny projects!!!