The advantages of silicon were already well-known. First, it was extremely light — a third of the mass of steel — which means that the amount of energy required to move a silicon component is much less, thus allowing a movement to run longer. Secondly, Cheap Patek Philippe Replica harder than steel and extremely smooth, allowing interacting components that could function without the need for lubrication and with insignificant surface wear over the lifetime of the component.

With it Patek Philippe introduced two new innovations. The first came with an optimized and updated Spiromax® balance spring that boasted improved isochronism of the balance in the vertical positions, thanks to an inner boss. This progress accounted for several patents, allowing an accuracy rate of -1 to +2 seconds per day in comparison with a Patek Philippe Tourbillon Replica Watch. Since then, the optimized Spiromax® balance spring has been integrated in most Patek Philippe movements, especially in calibers 240, 215, 28-520 and 324.

Patek Philippe’s Advanced Research came up with a beautiful steel frame, with crisscrossing steel filaments flaring out into high-mass extremities, that condenses a bunch of components into a single efficient beast that is simultaneously robust and elastic. It has reduced a set of 37 parts to a system of 12. Fewer components mean less friction, less oil floating around the movement and less space needed.

The Replica Ref. 5750 Patek Philippe “Advanced Research” Minute Repeater boasts a superb 40mm platinum case, inspired by the Ref. 5178 minute repeater with cathedral gongs and, according to Patek Philippe, is able to “amplify the volume of the time strike in a purely mechanical manner while preserving the excellent acoustic quality.”

The Advanced Research department considered several approaches and eventually agreed that they would start with the mini-rotor Caliber R 27, the movement with which Patek Philippe ushered the comeback of the minute repeater in 1989, and add to it a module that would answer the brief at hand. All this while preserving the original design of the Caliber R 27.

But where the typical loudspeaker amplifies by means of a flexible membrane, Advanced Research’s new solution is based on a 0.2mm oscillating wafer made of Patek Philippe Replica Watches synthetic sapphire that while rigid and free moving is able to provide optimised sound propagation within the confines of a wristwatch, thanks to angular motion.

In order to understand how the module that the Advanced Research department has devised over the Caliber R 27, we must first learn it’s components. We start with a steel sound lever that is attached to the middle of the oscillating wafer on one end and the other end, resembling a tuning fork, is a flexible 0.08mm thick that is used to secure the sound level to the gong assembly.

Meaning to say that the loudness of a minute repeater is significantly reliant on how well the case material is able propagate the sound from the movement to outside of the case. In this regard, titanium is understood to be one of the best and rose gold Patek Philippe Replica thereafter when considering traditional precious materials, with platinum being the worst, with its higher material density.

The audio generated by the chiming mechanism, once routed through the sound lever and then to the oscillating wafer, is thereafter allowed to ring out from the case through four narrow openings in a titanium ring, at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock, placed between the caseback and the caseband. Effectively, the Advanced Research’s development has negated the need to consider case material when concerned with the loudness of a chiming timepiece.

The last of the patents has to go with the hammers of the minute repeater hammers, which on the 5750’s movement are forged in platinum and is said to improve, “the quality of the strike in line with the directives of the High-Quality Patek Philippe Replica and produces a softer strike as well without reducing its sonority.”

There is yet another patent of Patek Philippe’s contained within the 5750 that has to do with the R 27. Which that the gongs on the movement are helical in shape and attached at the same plane on the point of assembly which ensures the balanced amplification of both the hour and minute strikes.

Turning the Swiss Replica Watches over we’re not only treated to this new generation of the R 27 movement, but as well the Fortissimo “ff” module. Point to note is that while the original R 27 has a white gold mini-rotor, the 5750’s variation has been given a platinum one for a thinner mini-rotor with the same material density.