Citizen Calibre 9000 minute repeater

[ducttaperulestheworl]

lol how come the high pitch sound comes first then the low pitch sound comes later?

isn't it the other way round? sounded odd this way :P

still I can tell the time tho

[scotfreak]

that hurt my ears, why not have a real chime feature rather than an ear peircing digital scream?

[kcosta010010011001]

@scotfreak The reason why is, because it would cost to much to produce. If you ever held the Campanola MR'S Citizens High end line, uses a bell tone sound instead of an electronic one. Also unlike the one shown the Campanola watches are not Eco Drive, if they were the cost would go from $3,400 to $4,000. This way for those who can't afford a Campanola, You still get a MR but without the Campanola Price. Hope that helps.

[v5dan]

From seeing this, i have just bought one! Thankyou!

[coconutty213]

do they have this kind of watches for the ladies? can anyone recommend a good model? :D

[blink148]

they do make minute repeaters for deaf people though....way back in the day... they would vibrate each tone.

[fastcougar3200]

I guess you wanna say: for blind people

[numbnerve]

I happened to work at a jewerly store back in 1992 and I was able to purchase what I believe to be Citizen's first Minute Repeater, and I loved the repeater function so much I ran the battery down about every 4 months. Long story short - after sending it back several times, they broke it and I gave up trying to have it repaired, until recently. Now they're saying the parts needed are discontinued but they're offering 50% off a new one. I can't tell if the new chime has the same cool sound....

[Campanola]

Why Citizen don't make a watch that have a similar sound for the alarm? It would be nice to be woken by a musical carillon.

[Lewis1985]

How exactly does this watch work? Can you have it so it chimes every hour, like a clocktower?

[slumbuddy]

It is a minute repeater (chimes out the current time on demand), not a sonnerie (chimes every hour or quarter hour). After I press the button, the first tone counts off the hours, the double chime counts off the quarter hours, and the second tone counts off the minutes. Add them all up and that is the time.

[Lewis1985]

is it like for deaf people?

[slumbuddy]

Well, deaf people wouldn't be able to hear it would they? This would benefit blind people, but the original intent, 150 years ago, was for gentlemen to tell the time in a darkened theater (mechanical repeaters are usually not as loud as quartz ones)

[Lewis1985]

I kinda want one but don't see why i when I would ever need to use the chimer.

[Lewis1985]

i = or *

[rlpelican88]

lol you must be retarded or something

[Ihumpthings]

yes its for deaf and blind people. it must be combo.

[Shangas]

Minute-repeaters weren't made for blind people, although blind people are probably the people to benefit most from them. They were invented so that folks could tell time at night. They were originally put in pocket-watches. Pocket-watches didn't have glow-in-the-dark dials or anything, so the repeater allowed people to tell the time when they didn't have a light-source nearby to read the dial.

[antiiraqwar]

glow in the dark!

[albertkil]

@Lewis1985 your lack of intelligence amazes me

[PeterPW]

That's probably the only quartz watch I would ever consider buying... except in full yellow gold!