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00:25Have you ever wondered what those extra dials are on the face of a watch?
00:28These often represent complications.
00:30A complication is something beyond telling the time on a watch.
00:33And today, here at IWC, we're going to go into detail on some of these complications.
00:45Chronograph is a special type of watch with an additional mechanism
00:50which allows to use your watch as a stopwatch.
00:53For example, the IWC chronograph, calibre 89000, allows to measure seconds, hour and minutes.
01:01You may use your chronograph in sports for measure lap time on the racetrack.
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01:14Well, the minute repeater was developed in a time when there was no electricity,
01:20so there was no light during night.
01:22A mechanism will strike the hours, quarters and minutes and indicate the time in an acoustic way.
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01:31A minute repeater is really an emotional mechanism.
01:34Because of the sound, it took more than 50,000 hours for IWC engineers to develop.
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01:56which consists of all the escapement parts and the balance in the centre.
02:02But that's some small mechanism that allows actually to compensate for the gravity
02:05and improve the quality of the watch or the performance of the watch.
02:08And by there you can have actually a watch that has a better rate or a better chronometry aspect.
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02:22It is a real story, the development of this perpetual calendar.
02:27Because in the beginning I started, of course, without any computer.
02:32Everything I had to calculate in my head, so it was a real adventure to do this.
02:39The first automatic perpetual calendar.
02:43Date, weekday, month, moon phase.
02:47And one important thing.
02:49The year indicator changing automatically every end of the year.
02:55Even every hundred years it changes the century indication.
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