Gerald Charles Unveils Its Most Complex Timepiece, The Masterlink Perpetual Calendar

Gerald Charles, the independent Swiss watchmaking Maison founded by the great Mr. Gérald Charles Genta, unveils its most complicated watch since its reestablishment less than a decade ago. The Masterlink Perpetual Calendar, developed entirely in-house, marks a new chapter for the young and ambitious Maison as it continues to expand its repertoire of poetic complications.

In keeping with Gerald Charles’s “No Compromise” watchmaking philosophy, established by Mr. Genta more than a quarter of a century ago, the Masterlink Perpetual Calendar introduces an in-house, asymmetrical, automatic perpetual calendar calibre with a three-counter display.

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Quarter repeater

Quarter repeater

Is a complication found in some watches that allows the wearer to audibly tell the time by activating a mechanism that chimes the hours, quarters, and minutes. When the wearer activates the quarter repeater function, small hammers strike tuned gongs to produce different tones representing the time. The number of strikes on the gongs corresponds to the hours, quarters, and minutes.

The quarter repeater is called so because it typically chimes the hours, quarters (15-minute intervals), and minutes. For example, if the time is 7:47, the quarter repeater would chime seven times for the hours, three times for three quarters (45 minutes), and twice for the minutes.