Glossary

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.