What is this lever all about? (Fig.3) The lever enables you to, hear the time. By sliding the lever you activate the watch's repeat mechanism, which through different bell sounds - tells you the actual time in hours, quarter of an hour and minutes. Yes, there are digital quartz watches that will indicate the current time through sounds, but this analog minute repeater looks and tells the time like the most exclusive mechanical minute repeaters of early 20th century!
The quartz minute repeater movement and the side slide lever to trigger it can be found only in the Shellman SIDE SLIDE Minute Repeater. A famous mechanical watch of this kind would cost you in excess of $100.000.00 but Shellman's Minute Repeater is affordable to everybody. The watch is styled discreetly and expresses an exclusivity of its own.
A simple looking but traditionally stylish SIDE SLIDE Minute Repeater! We are convinced that watch lovers will be wearing it with much pride. To recreate luxurious and noble style of the early century, attention was paid as making every aspect of this watch resemble the famous model three quarter of a century ago. Starting with the repeat -lever itself, the dial, the Roman numerals and the watch-hands, all aspects were carefully conceived and executed perfectly.