Without getting overly deep into the history of chiming watches and their permutation and variations (like minute repeaters and petite and grand sonneries), we can cut to the chase by stating that the new L.U.C Grand Strike combines all three of the difficult-to-achieve sounding functions in one superb wrist watch. Over 11,000 hours of in-house research and development, and no less than five new technical patents (with a total of 10 proprietary patents), have allowed the watchmaker to produce dedicated chiming tones for each function within a single mechanism. Read more (and listen to the chime) in the full article on Hodinkee.
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