GENEVA, Switzerland — September 7, 2026
Most watch brands at Geneva Watch Days had display vitrines, a stand, some even a stage slot, and a hosted suite nearby at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage. What the week offered SWANDEX instead was a handful of direct conversations with the industry that inspired the app — and a good moment to introduce its redesign.
"A minute repeater took the finest watchmakers in the world centuries to perfect, purely so time could be told without looking. We are not trying to replace that watch. We built the software so that idea — hearing the time rather than checking it — could live quietly in a phone everyone already carries, and survive every update Apple and Google throw at it in the process."
Those conversations mark a new phase for the app more than the event itself does: after two years of continuous, incremental engineering across every operating system it runs on, SWANDEX is positioning Carillon Repetition Minute as a mature, dependable piece of software rather than a first release, and is starting to reach out to horology and lifestyle media directly, in addition to the channels it has already built with watch collectors and enthusiasts.
Built and rebuilt to survive real phones, real years.
Since its original launch, Carillon Repetition Minute has been re-engineered at the operating-system level, through several major iOS and Android platform updates, to keep its chimes reliable in the conditions modern mobile operating systems are increasingly built to prevent: background processes being silenced, throttled, or killed outright to save battery.
About Carillon Repetition Minute
Carillon Repetition Minute is a minute-repeater watch complication, reimagined as a phone app. It marks the quarter hours and the hour automatically, and strikes the full time on demand at a press of the dial, the way a répétition minute wristwatch has done for collectors and horologists for generations. Available worldwide on the App Store and Google Play in 14 languages, it was designed to be discreet by default, respectful of a device's own volume and Do Not Disturb settings, and usable without ever looking at a screen.