Louis Erard Unveils the Limited-Edition Gravée Main

Since 2021, Louis Erard has been redefining the boundaries of Métiers d’Art, from Grand Feu enamel and guilloché to wood marquetry, and soon, gold wire inlay. Now, Gravée Main opens a new chapter, paying tribute to one of the oldest crafts in watchmaking hand engraving.
Gravée Main represents a new milestone in Louis Erard’s Métiers d’Art series. This limited edition of 99 unique timepieces places hand engraving at center stage, with every metal element entirely engraved and finished by hand, a meticulous process that requires more than 50 hours of work.

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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.